trying to explain some words

[Lorenzo Bettini]

Francois-Rene Rideau wrote:
> 
> >>: Fare
> >: Logic Lord
> 
> >> As soon as you have general parallel and asynchronous computation,
> >> you have non-determinism.
> >
> > I'm not really understanding all of this, but I'd like to confirm a
> > possible theory that I have for why this would be....
> Asynchrony means that when multiple processes work in parallel
> at different rates and/or communicate through media whose speed
> and reliability is unknown, you can never know for sure
> which messages of multiple messages sent will be received first.
> If clients A and B both send requests to server C,
> either may be served first, and the face of the world will be changed.

By asynchronous communication I mean: if A sends a request or message to
B, A is not blocked waiting for the answer from B.

Lorenzo

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