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Question:

How direct-communication can improve the performance of communicating processes

Answer:

Normally, MOSIX processes do all their I/O and (most) system-calls via their respective home-nodes. This can be slow because operations are limited by the network speed and latency.

Direct communication allows processes to exchange messages directly between migrated processes, bypassing their home-nodes.