Non-Blocking Concurrent Imperative Programming with Session Types
Logic in Computer Science
2017-01-19 v1
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1701.04920,
title = {Non-Blocking Concurrent Imperative Programming with Session Types},
author = {Miguel Silva and Mário Florido and Frank Pfenning},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.04920},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
In Proceedings LINEARITY 2016, arXiv:1701.04522