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Java byte code, see Bradley et al. [1998] and Pugh [1999].
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The second problem
is raised by code that is superfluously transmitted to a destination agency,
either because it is not needed there or because it already exists there as a
result of a prior code transmission by its agent or another agent of the same
type. However, besides the qualitative arguments against this technique,
we can also mention quantitative arguments. An extension of our model of
network load and transmission time to consider differentmigrationstrategies
is beyond the scope of this section, so we postpone it to the following one,
in which