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In parallel programming, asynchronous communication is far more common than synchronous.

Basis for preferring Linda's out (asynchronous) to remote procedure calls.

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Artificial Intelligence and Linda in Context

(1989) · Carriero, Nicholas · Gelernter, David

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Design principles for care-centered systems
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Cross-scale frameworks linking spatial patterns, diagrams, and simplicity as expressions of care in design.
Async vs sync parallel communication
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Argues asynchronous message passing outperforms synchronous procedure calls in parallel programs.

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Linda
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The core parallel programming model introduced in this paper, based on tuple space operations and orthogonal to any base language.

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