Quote: the time to start and terminate an 'alt' is proportional to the number of branches; may need to build a decision tree

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Another expensive part of the [Communicating Sequential Processes] model is … number of branches in it. Only one of … effort is effectively wasted. [Programmers of parallel applications typically set up a tree of 'alt's].   Google-1   Google-2

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