The objective for the master is to select which file to send to which slave, and in which order, so as to minimize the total execution time.
That is increasingly true as more independent shops are acquired by the giant holding companies, whose shares are publicly traded and which order belt-tightening as a way to maintain profit margins.
Even if there are some cases in which "order is for free," as the antifunctionalists like to claim, there is no reason why selection cannot make use of it in one way or another.
A CASE FOR SOMETHING TOTALLY DIFFERENT If you are still confused as to which order is best for you, don't be discouraged.
A temporal relation can be an 'anchor' relation, which anchors an event to a time expression (as in Sentence (1)), or an 'order' relation, which orders two events (as in Sentence (2)).
Evolutionary events that affect the gene order of genomes include a number of rearrangements, which affect only the order, as well as gene duplication and loss, which affect both the gene content and, indirectly, the order.
One reason is the end of the cold war, which transformed the global order as well as thinking about how the world works.
Strain aging of Hadfield steel is discussed in terms of the interstitial octahedron, local-order model, which defines order as the probability that a C atom in an octahedral cluster of metal atoms has n (an integer between 0 and 6) Mn nearest neighbors.
The ship probably escaped a total loss by flooding the 330 mm gun magazines which had been ordered as soon as the torpedo-bombers appeared.
Mr. Burton has a keen sense of order, which is good as far as it goes; to make itself distinct, this band is going to have to be more disruptive.
