MSG:
* Port of MSG's mailbox on top of SIMIX network
- The put/get mechanism was greatly simplified thanks to the new SIMIX module.
+ The put/get mechanism was greatly simplified on the way.
SIMIX:
- * New SIMIX network module
- It provides a rendez-vous point (aka mailbox) based send/recv API to perform
- synchronous communication.
+ * New SIMIX network module. Provides:
+ - Mailbox: rendez-vous mecanism to find with who you want to speak
+ - Synchronous send/recv: easier and hopefully faster since the
+ logic is handled in the maestro process directly now
+ - Asynchronous send/recv: you dreamt of it? It's here now
+ Too bad that nobody cared enough to propagate the change to MSG.
* Add semaphores as SIMIX synchronization mechanism.
SimDag: