Events can make sense

  • Authors:
  • Maxwell Krohn;Eddie Kohler;M. Frans Kaashoek

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT CSAIL;UCLA;MIT CSAIL

  • Venue:
  • ATC'07 2007 USENIX Annual Technical Conference on Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Tame is a new event-based system for managing concurrency in network applications. Code written with Tame abstractions does not suffer from the "stack-ripping" problem associated with other event libraries. Like threaded code, tamed code uses standard control flow, automatically-managed local variables, and modular interfaces between callers and callees. Tame's implementation consists of C++ libraries and a source-to-source translator; no platform-specific support or compiler modifications are required, and Tame induces little runtime overhead. Experience with Tame in real-world systems, including a popular commercial Web site, suggests it is easy to adopt and deploy.