budd@mist.cs.orst.edu (Tim Budd) (01/24/89)
I'm looking for a published reference for the idea of futures, either in Lisp or in Smalltalk. (No, I don't want an explaination of the idea, I understand that well enough; I want a reference for a paper I'm writing). --tim
kobryn@esosun.UUCP (Cris Kobryn) (01/24/89)
In article <8438@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> budd@mist.cs.orst.edu (Tim Budd) writes:
I'm looking for a published reference for the idea of futures, either in
Lisp or in Smalltalk. (No, I don't want an explaination of the idea, I
understand that well enough; I want a reference for a paper I'm writing).
Futures are one of two constructs used for dealing with parallelism
in Multilisp. Their function is described in:
Halstead, R. H., "Implementation of Multilisp: Lisp on a
Multiprocessor," 1984 ACM Symposiusm on Lisp and
Functional Programming, 1984.
-- Cris Kobryn