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Foil 3 Representing Message Buffers

From Object serialization for Marshalling Data in a Java Interface to MPI ACM Java Grande Meeting -- June 12-13 99. by Bryan Carpenter,Geoffrey C. Fox, Sung-Hoon Ko, Sang Lim
Two natural options:
Follow the MPI standard route: derived datatypes describe buffers consisting of mixed primitive fields scattered in local memory.
Follow the Java standard route: automatic marshalling of complex structures through object serialization.

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