processes.
      </p>
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<a name="mpi.python_skeleton_content"></a>Skeleton/Content Mechanism</h3></div></div></div>
<p>
        Boost.MPI provides a skeleton/content mechanism that allows the transfer
        of large data structures to be split into two separate stages, with the skeleton
        (or, "shape") of the data structure sent first and the content
        (or, "data") of the data structure sent later, potentially sever