craig@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Craig Hubley) (08/25/89)
Does anyone know of an implementation of Linda (the parallel programming
system, really a language extension) available for Mach, on the NeXT or
otherwise? A C, Objective-C, C++, or even PostScript version would be
of interest, and a CommonLISP/CLOS version would be an answer to a prayer.
Of course, I'd appreciate any information. Please respond by email and
I'll summarize to these groups.
If there's no such thing, why not ? Linda tuple-spaces are a simple paradigm
for parallelism that can be implemented on top of almost any other set of IPC
and RPC mechanisms, and more efficiently than hundreds of programmers trying
to use sockets! And threads... and semaphores... and shared memory... ick.
A Linda expression can be optimized to any of these implementations, without
all that mess in your program.
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