LISP and Symbolic Computation, 6(1/2)177-200
EULISP Threads: A Concurrency ToolboxNeil Berrington, University of Southampton, UK
Peter Broadbery, University of Bath, UK
David De Roure, University of Southampton, UK
Julian Padget, University of Bath, UK
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Abstract: Many current high level languages have been designed
with support for concurrency in mind, providing constructs for the
programmer to build explicit parallelism into a program. The EULISP
threads mechanism, in conjunction with locks, and a generic event
waiting operation provides a set of primitive tools with which such
concurrency abstractions can be constructed. The object system (TELOS)
provides a powerful approach to building and controlling these
abstractions. We provide a synopsis of this `concurrency toolbox', and
demonstrate the construction of a number of established abstractions
using the facilities of EULISP: pcall, futures, stack groups,
channels, CSP and Linda. Keywords: concurrency, objects, threads, channels, Linda, futures, communicating sequential processes |
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