Design of an Actor Language for Implicit Parallel Programming

Yariv Aridor; Shimon Cohen; Amiram Yehudai

doi:10.1145/284563.284574

Design of an Actor Language for Implicit Parallel Programming

Yariv Aridor, Shimon Cohen, Amiram Yehudai

School of Computer Sciences

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Software tools that support implicit parallel programming hold the key to reducing the complexity of parallel programming and realizing more ubiquitous parallel computation. This paper addresses the topic of implicit concurrent object-oriented programming. It presents a new language, SYMPAL, which unlike most existing COOP languages that provide explicit constructs for concurrency control, is based on a unification of object orientation and pure functional programming with the goals of supporting implicit programming and high efficiency in massively concurrent object-oriented programming. Extensive experience with SYMPAL applications on a parallel machine indicates that it achieves these goals.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	39-47
Number of pages	9
Journal	ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Volume	33
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/284563.284574
State	Published - Jun 1998

Keywords

Actor-based languages
Concurrency
Efficiency
Functional programming
Implicit programming
Object-oriented programming

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