Re: Bytecode level thread implementation

Tomasz Zielonka <t.zielonka@zodiac.mimuw.edu.pl>
30 May 2004 13:23:47 -0400

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From: Tomasz Zielonka <t.zielonka@zodiac.mimuw.edu.pl>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 30 May 2004 13:23:47 -0400
Organization: MIMUW
References: 04-05-064
Keywords: interpreter
Posted-Date: 30 May 2004 13:23:47 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?


This is a known idea. It works quite well, so expect to find many such
implementations.


Check Erlang and byte-code compiled OCaml.


IIRC, You can use this kind of threading system in some Java
implementations.


Haskell compiler GHC uses user-level threading for both byte-code and
native-code. Task switching happens when the program allocates memory
(Haskell programs tend to allocate quite often) or uses concurrency
primitives.


Best regards,
Tom


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