BaLinda Lisp: Design and implementation

Feng, Ming-Dong; Wong, Weng-Fai; Yuen, C. K.

doi:10.1016/s0096-0551(96)00016-1

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“…Several approaches to implementing physically distributed tuple spaces exist. For instance, one can maintain the entire tuple space at one of the n locations (e.g., Feng et al [51], Wyckoff et al [52]), but although simple to implement, this does not scale well in the number of processes [53]. The centralized approach in this paper actually has a similar scalability problem, as all parallelism is sequentialized.…”

Section: Distributed Coordinationmentioning

confidence: 96%

Centralized coordination vs. partially-distributed coordination with Reo and constraint automata

Jongmans

Arbab

2018

Science of Computer Programming

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High-level concurrency notations and abstractions have several well-known software engineering advantages when it comes to programming concurrency protocols among threads. To also explore their complementary performance advantages, in ongoing work, we are developing compilation technology for a high-level coordination language, Reo, based on this language's formal automaton semantics. By now, as shown in our previous work, our tools are capable of generating code that can compete with carefully handcrafted code, at least for some protocols. An important prerequisite to further advance this promising technology, now, is to gain a better understanding of how the significantly different compilation approaches that we developed so far, which vary in the amount of parallelism in their generated code, compare against each other. For instance, to better and more reliably tune our compilers, we must learn under which circumstances parallel protocol code, with high throughput but also high latency, outperforms sequential protocol code, with low latency but also low throughput. In this paper, we report on an extensive performance comparison between these approaches for a substantial number of protocols, expressed in Reo. Because we have always formulated our compilation technology in terms of a general kind of communicating automaton (i.e., constraint automata), our findings apply not only to Reo but, in principle, to any language whose semantics can be defined in terms of such automata.

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Section: Distributed Coordinationmentioning

confidence: 96%