On Jul 17, 2012, at 10:14 PM, Jed Brown wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> But Shri indicated there is a possible problem, what is that problem? Or is 
> there none?
> 
> The "problem" is that there is special code that removes the threadcomm from 
> SELF and WORLD. If we assume that they are different, but in fact, SELF and 
> WORLD are the same object, it looks like a reference counting inconsistency. 
> Thus special code to deal with MPIUNI where they are the same. I don't 
> understand why it's such a problem to make MPIUNI non-special in having SELF 
> and WORLD be different values.

   Cause I'm a crotchety old bastard.

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