Re: caching on MPI handles

Eric Salo (salo@mrjones.engr.sgi.com)
Fri, 18 Oct 1996 14:50:56 -0700

> I don't see a problem if we make it so that A and B's attributes are
> distinct, i.e. new datatypes always start out with no attributes and
> there is no inheritance via copy functions.

Yes, that's where I was going as well.

> We might also want to consider restricting caching to committed types
> only.

This is only a win if we disallow copying. Otherwise, implementations would
still have to keep track of the attributes for non-committed types anyway. I
think this restriction is probably a good idea.

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