arXiv · 1701.04920
Non-Blocking Concurrent Imperative Programming with Session Types
Abstract
Concurrent C0 is an imperative programming language in the C family with session-typed message-passing concurrency. The previously proposed semantics implements asynchronous (non-blocking) output; we extend it here with non-blocking input. A key idea is to postpone message reception as much as possible by interpreting receive commands as a request for a message. We implemented our ideas as a translation from a blocking intermediate language to a non-blocking language. Finally, we evaluated our techniques with several benchmark programs and show the results obtained. While the abstract measure of span always decreases (or remains unchanged), only a few of the examples reap a practical benefit.
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Miguel Silva, Mário Florido, Frank Pfenning. 2017-01-18. Non-Blocking Concurrent Imperative Programming with Session Types. https://doi.org/10.4204/eptcs.238.7
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