CLASSIFICATION (7) Blocking

• Criterion #7: Blocking (B).

  • The basic program block in the consistency maintenance process varies in size and structure from one algorithm to the other.

• Classes:

  • Critical region (c) as in [SMITH85, TARTA92]
  • Epoch (e) as in [MCAUL86, VEIDE86, LEE87, CHEON89, MIN89]
  • Subroutine (s) (procedure) as in [CYTRO88]
  • Program (p) as in [WULF72].

• Comment:

  • Actually, terms like "computational unit" [MCAUL86], "loop" [VEIDE86], "epoch" [LEE87, MIN89], "task level" [CHEON89], and similar, refer to the issue which is essentially the basic consistency block.