Re: Bytecode level thread implementation

Eliot Miranda <eliotm@pacbell.net>
30 May 2004 13:26:07 -0400

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From: Eliot Miranda <eliotm@pacbell.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 30 May 2004 13:26:07 -0400
Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com
References: 04-05-064
Keywords: interpreter
Posted-Date: 30 May 2004 13:26:07 EDT

Gabriele Farina *DarkBard* wrote:
> I'd like to implement a OS independent threading system. I thought to
> manage threads directly inside the bytecode genereted by my compiler.
> Do you think it could be interesting? There's any opensource language
> that implements this kind of feature?


Its certainly interesting and instructive to do, but its been done
before :) The Squeak Smalltalk-80 system includes a real-time thread
scheduler in its VM and is open source.


I would expect there to be open source Java implementations that include
    "green" threads as they're called.


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