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MESSENGERS is a system for general-purpose distributed computing based on the concept of autonomous mobile objects, capable of navigating through a network and invoking native-mode C functions in the nodes they visit. We present performance measurements using three specific applications to illustrate the cost of using this paradigm for developing and using distributed applications.
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Fukuda, M., Bic, L.F., Dillencourt, M.B. (1997). Performance of the messengers autonomous-objects-based system. In: Masuda, T., Masunaga, Y., Tsukamoto, M. (eds) Worldwide Computing and Its Applications. WWCA 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1274. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63343-X_37
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