Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: froning@aps.rwth-aachen.de (Dieter Froning)
Subject: Large link transfers
Keywords: Links
Organization: aps
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 16:04:00
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Reading the Performance Improvement Manual of the OCCAM 2 Toolset we 
changed in a test programm the following lines

out.channel ! 101 
out.channel ! 102 
out.channel ! 103 

to the construct described in chapter 8.2 "Large Link transfers"

out.channel ! 101; 102; 103

and received the compiler error message "Too many items in I/O-List".
The receiving process expected three inputs :

in.channel ? testvar1
in.channel ? testvar2
in.channel ? testvar3

So there occurs the question if it is possible to send a data list (e.g. 
protocol type any) down a channel like an array ("out.channel ! [array FROM
0 TO 100]")?

- Dieter -

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