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dist[process]: Execute a Task by a Separate Process

task := dist[process](fun, args...)

This call creates a task that computes fun(args...) on a separate (possibly newly created) Maple kernel. This kernel has executed all the commands issued through previous calls of dist[all] in the corresponding order. During the execution of the task, no other task is scheduled on the kernel.

One must use this operation (rather than dist[start]) if args contains other tasks or shared objects.

The execution of dist[process] may involve a larger runtime and especially memory overhead than the execution of dist[start].

> t := dist[process](int, x^n, x);
                                     t := 0