On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 02:49:03PM -0500, Rajeev Thakur wrote:
1) The MPI-2.1 document has 127 occurrences of "nonblocking" and only 8 occurrences of "non-blocking". What would be the correct term? Should we try to be more consistent?
The technical editor in our division prefers the version without the hyphen. She will remove the hyphen in our papers. hmm, I would disagree - I had exactly the same discussion with our technical editor :). She explained me for 15 minutes why it is "non-blocking" and not "nonblocking" or "non blocking".
Also, if you do the <pick your favorit search enigne> test (I know ... but languages are dynamically changed by their users), you'll see that non-blocking seems to be the most-used term in the I/O and communication context. I'm open for arguments! Best, Torsten -- bash$ :(){ :|:&};: --------------------- http://www.unixer.de/ ----- Torsten Hoefler | Postdoctoral Researcher Open Systems Lab | Indiana University 150 S. Woodlawn Ave. | Bloomington, IN, 474045, USA Lindley Hall Room 135 | +01 (812) 855-3608