Things I need to write about

This is an outline for what I need to write about at some stage and should function as a think pad for the time being.

• Introduction (not for a while though)
• Motivation, justification
• Language shortfalls
• My changes to the language
• Examples on situations where the language works well
• Possible extensions
  • Failure recovery
  • Heterogeneous networks
  • Mapping directives
  • "shape" ideas
  • Different context types
    • 1 - 1
    • 1 - all
    • any - all
    • any - 1
    • 1 - any
    • any - any

• User manual [some html done]
• Language description [done?]
• Description of the parser and its ugly bits
  • Justification for doing it that way
  • Problems with doing it that way

• Description of various parts of the library
  • data handling
  • callbacks
  • scheduling
  • preemption / mutual exclusion
  • Message passing
  • shared memory operation
  • select operation
    • Locking of data
    • Accept/reject
    • request setup
    • correctness?

• Porting
• Performance
  • On different architectures
  • How well host facilities are used
  • Problems

• Debugging [some html done]

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