[mpi3-coll] Non-blocking Collectives Proposal Draft

[Jesper Larsson Traeff]

(to my eyes "non-blocking" looks right... but I don't have strong
arguments. but still...)

jesper

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 09:27:12PM -0400, Torsten Hoefler wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 04:42:45PM -0700, Bronis R. de Supinski wrote:
> > 
> > Rajeev and Torsten:
> > 
> > I believe that Rajeev is correct. The Chicago Manual of
> > Style passge that Torsten cited is not germane. It deals
> > with whether you are supposed to add hyphens to adjective/
> > noun combinations that are being used as adjectives, e.g.,
> > "graduate student" (instead of "graduate-student") in
> > graduate student housing. It has nothing to do with
> > hyphenating compound words or words that are synthesized
> > by adding well defined prefixes to existing words.
> ok, I capitulate with the hyphen :). But after reading CMS 7.90 and
> 8.170, http://amaediting.blogspot.com/2008/07/hyphenated-prefixes.html
> and http://www.nyu.edu/classes/copyXediting/Hyphens.html , and talking
> to more native speakers, I would say that everything seems to be evolving
> to closed prefixes.
> 
> So as weird as it looks, I'd propose "nonblocking" as the way to go (I
> guess I should like it as a German). Any opinions on this?
> 
> Best,
>   Torsten
> 
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