noalias comments to X3J11

Henry Spencer henry at utzoo.uucp
Sun Apr 10 10:24:25 AEST 1988


> ... Too often is asynchronous communication neglected
> in favour of synchronous IPC.

With good reason, since it is much harder to use safely and correctly.
Note that the first thing most operating systems do is to turn the hardware's
asynchronous interrupts into some (at least semi-) synchronous form.
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