[MLton] Ongoing parallel runtime work

[Eric McCorkle]

On Jan 22, 2008, at 11:55 AM, Matthew Fluet wrote:

> These sound like fairly extensive changes to both the runtime and  
> the compiler proper.  Is all of this implemented and working, or  
> just work-in-progress changes?
>

I'm envisioning some sort of -parallel flag, which will compile for  
the parallel runtime.  There shouldn't be too many actual compiler  
changes, truth be known, just some changes in the handling of  
pointers, the formatting of objects, and allocating memory.  In fact,  
the threading will become much simpler, as the thread code is all  
external.

The scheduler is finished and withstands some rather harsh random  
testing.  The lock-free malloc is at a compiling state, but was  
implemented exactly as described by Maged Michael's paper.  I'm about  
50% finished with the garbage collector (not including compiler  
modification).

-- 
Eric McCorkle
Brown University
CS Graduate Student


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