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Foil 10 Advantages of Datatypes

From Designing and Building Parallel Programs 3: MPI Message Passing System DoD Modernization Tutorial -- 1995-1998. by Ian Foster, Gina Goff, Ehtesham Hayder, Chuck Koelbel
Specifications of elementary datatypes allows heterogeneous communication.
Elimination of length in favor of count is clearer
Specifying application-oriented layouts allows maximal use of special hardware

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