Lightweight concurrency primitives for GHC Export

@misc{citeulike:1458075, abstract = {The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) has quite sophisticated support for concurrency in its runtime system, which is written in low-level C code. As GHC evolves, the runtime system becomes increasingly complex, error-prone, difficult to maintain and difficult to add new concurrency features. This paper presents an alternative approach to implement concurrency in GHC. Rather than hard-wiring all kinds of concurrency features, the runtime system is a thin substrate providing only a small set of concurrency primitives, and the rest of concurrency features are implemented in software libraries written in Haskell. This design improves the safety of concurrency support; it also provides more customizability of concurrency features, as new concurrency features can be developed as Haskell library packages and deployed modularly.}, author = {Li, Peng and Tolmach, Andrew and Marlow, Simon and Peyton-Jones, Simon}, booktitle = {Haskell Workshop '07 (submitted)}, citeulike-article-id = {1458075}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/lw-conc/index.htm}, keywords = {concurrency, haskell}, posted-at = {2007-07-15 23:08:28}, priority = {2}, title = {Lightweight concurrency primitives for GHC}, url = {http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/lw-conc/index.htm}, year = {2007} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:1458075 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1458075 N2 - The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) has quite sophisticated support for concurrency in its runtime system, which is written in low-level C code. As GHC evolves, the runtime system becomes increasingly complex, error-prone, difficult to maintain and difficult to add new concurrency features. This paper presents an alternative approach to implement concurrency in GHC. Rather than hard-wiring all kinds of concurrency features, the runtime system is a thin substrate providing only a small set of concurrency primitives, and the rest of concurrency features are implemented in software libraries written in Haskell. This design improves the safety of concurrency support; it also provides more customizability of concurrency features, as new concurrency features can be developed as Haskell library packages and deployed modularly. TI - Lightweight concurrency primitives for GHC T2 - Haskell Workshop '07 (submitted) KW - concurrency KW - haskell AU - Li, Peng AU - Tolmach, Andrew AU - Marlow, Simon AU - Peyton-Jones, Simon PY - 2007/// UR - http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/lw-conc/index.htm ER -