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Concurrent programming in TAO — Practice and experience

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Parallel Lisp: Languages and Systems (PSC 1989)

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Abstract

This paper describes various aspects of the concurrent programming in the Lisp language and related problems, based on our practice and experience with a concurrent Lisp dialect TAO. TAO realizes a multiple process and multiple user environment of practical performance and significance on a single ELIS processor by its powerful concurrent primitives.

Topics described in this paper include: a Lisp-style process management, sharing Lisp programs among processes and users, name space problems around symbol packages, concurrent primitives, concurrent program debugging, and some performance figures. Further extension of TAO towards to a multiple ELIS processor system is also discussed briefly.

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  1. NTT Basic Research Laboratories, 3-9-11, Midori-cho, Musashino-shi, 180, Tokyo, Japan

    Ikuo Takeuchi

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Takeuchi, I. (1990). Concurrent programming in TAO — Practice and experience. In: Ito, T., Halstead, R.H. (eds) Parallel Lisp: Languages and Systems. PSC 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 441. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0024161

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