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A fragment of assembly language code that is substituted for the function call it defines, during the inlining pass of Sun Studio compilers. Used (for example) by the math library in in-line template files (libm.il) in order to access hardware implementations of trigonometric functions and other elementary functions from C programs.
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In an XML document, the part that occurs after the prolog, including the root element and everything it contains.
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A form of asynchronous parallelism where simultaneous processing of different data occurs without lock-step coordination. In SPMD, processors can execute different instructions at the same time; such as, different branches of an if-then-else statement.
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In an XML document, text that is ignored unless the parser is specifically told to recognise it.
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A flow of control within a single UNIX process address space. Solaris threads provide a light-weight form of concurrent task, allowing multiple threads of control in a common user-address space, with minimal scheduling and communication overhead. Threads share the same address space, file descriptors (when one thread opens a file, the other threads can read it), data structures, and operating system state. A thread has a programme counter and a stack to keep track of local variables and return addresses. Threads interact through the use of shared data and thread synchronisation operations. See also bound thread, light-weight processes, multithreading, unbound thread.
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In a uniprocessor system, a large number of threads appear to be running in parallel. This is accomplished by rapidly switching between threads.
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In a shared memory multiprocessor machine each CPU and cache module are connected together via a bus that also includes memory and IO connections. The bus enforces a cache coherency protocol. See also cache, coherence, Mbus, XDBus.
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A fatal error occurs in the SAX parser when a document is not well formed or otherwise cannot be processed. See also error, warning.
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In a set associative cache, there are a fixed number of locations (at least two) where each block can be placed. A set associative cache with n locations for a block is called an n-way set associative cache. An n-way set associative cache consists of more than one set, each of which consists of n blocks. A block can be placed in any location (element) of that set. Increasing the associativity level (number of blocks in a set) increases the cache hit rate. See also cache, cache locality, false sharing, write-invalidate, write-update.
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