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If say the app has the following syntax :</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">           app (int ret_value) do_math (int x, int y) {</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">


                 add x y stdout=ret_value;</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">           }</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div>

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Would this (hypothetical) syntax entirely avoid the overhead of writing several small files as</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">we see in larger runs ?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">

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Thanks,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Yadu</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Mark Hereld <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hereld@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">hereld@mcs.anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">do you have a list of candidate syntax ideas for this?<div>-mark</div><div><div><div class="h5">

<br><div><div>On Sep 17, 2013, at 10:37 AM, Mihael Hategan <<a href="mailto:hategan@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">hategan@mcs.anl.gov</a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">I'm in favor of the idea too, but I think we need a discussion about how<br>

it will look like in the language and how it would look like to a user.<br><br>Mihael<br><br>On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 09:28 -0500, Ketan Maheshwari wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">I am in favor of this feature. Mike's suggestion of built-in ReadData logic<br>

in app invocation routine sounds like a good idea.<br><br><br>On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Mihael Hategan <<a href="mailto:hategan@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">hategan@mcs.anl.gov</a>>wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">

Please take a look at<br><a href="https://bugzilla.mcs.anl.gov/swift/show_bug.cgi?id=293" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.mcs.anl.gov/swift/show_bug.cgi?id=293</a><br><br>I think we should discuss it.<br><br>Mihael<br><br>

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