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send: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

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send1 CONSTRUCTMessage sendHOARE · MESSAGE SEND

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Concurrent computing

Dispatching a message to a process

In concurrent computing, a send is the primitive by which one process transmits a message to another, the counterpart of a receive, so that independent processes coordinate by passing messages rather than sharing memory. Hoare's 1978 Communicating sequential processes formalised input and output commands between named processes, making the send a basic act of inter-process communication. The referent is a message-dispatch operation defined by its sender, recipient, and value, with no relation to routing a copy of an audio signal to an auxiliary bus.[1]

Unit
A message-dispatch operation from one process to another
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Defined by its target, the message value, and whether it blocks until the receiver is ready

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References

  1. Hoare, C. A. R. (1978). Communicating sequential processes. Communications of the ACM, 21(8), 666–677. https://doi.org/10.1145/359576.359585

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