Parallel Lisp: Languages and Systems: US/Japan Workshop on Parallel Lisp Sendai, Japan, June 5–8, 1989 Proceedings [1 ed.] 3540527826, 9783540527824

Table of contents :
New ideas in parallel lisp: Language design, implementation, and programming tools....Pages 1-57
A parallel lisp language PaiLisp and its kernel specification....Pages 58-100
Continuing into the future: On the interaction of futures and first-class continuations....Pages 101-102
Speculative computation in multilisp....Pages 103-137
Garbage collection in multischeme....Pages 138-160
Qlisp: An Interim Report....Pages 161-181
Low-cost process creation and dynamic partitioning in Qlisp....Pages 182-199
Concurrent scheme....Pages 200-234
The design of automatic parallelizers for symbolic and numeric programs....Pages 235-253
A reflective object oriented concurrent language ABCL/R....Pages 254-256
Optimistic and pessimistic synchronization in distributed computing....Pages 257-260
Toward a new computing model for an open distributed environment....Pages 261-268
Concurrent programming in TAO — Practice and experience....Pages 269-299
A pseudo network approach to inter-processor communication on a shared-memory multi-processor MacELIS....Pages 300-305
Mul-T: A high-performance parallel lisp....Pages 306-311
Integrating parallel lisp with modern unix-based operating systems....Pages 312-315
mUtilisp: a lisp dialect for parallel processing....Pages 316-321
PM1 and PMLisp: An experimental machine and its lisp system for research on MIMD massively parallel computation....Pages 322-347
Design of the shared memory system for multi-processor lisp machines and its implementation on the evlis machine....Pages 348-352
TOP-1 multiprocessor workstation....Pages 353-363