The Effect of Restrictions on Relative Processor Speeds to Differences in Efficiency Between Synchronous and Asynchronous Systems Classic Reprint

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An infinite computation is admissible if every process appears infinitely often in the sequence. A round is any sequence of steps such that every process appears at least once in the sequence.

A minimal round is a round such that no proper prefix is a round (or, in other words, it is any sequence of steps such that every process appears at least once and at least one process appears just once). The run time for a finite sequence of steps is defined to be the number of segments in the partition into minimal rounds (the last segment may be just a part of a round).

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