[Shootout-list] ring of processes

[Bengt Kleberg]

Raymond Racine wrote:
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> I think a concise text description of the algorithm is what I am looking
> for.  

ok. since we have several better ideas than mine already suggested i 
think it is premature to describe any one idea. i will try to summeraise 
what i belive to have understood from the suggestions:

1 any simple topology would make it worth ''cheating'' by having several 
channels setup directly between the processes that should exchange messages.

2 if we insist upon testing that all connections in a complex topology 
actually work we will end up without a nice linear ''correlation'' 
between the number of processes and the number of messages. (i still 
think that we need to have a variable number of processes to avoid that 
the creation of processes takes up all the test time for a small number 
of messages)


it seems to me that it would be simpler to mandate one channel per 
process, than to devise a test that makes this the best solution.

could someone show me wrong, please.


bengt