The design and implementation of clocked variables in X10

Authors:
Daniel Atkins;Alex Potanin;Lindsay Groves
Affiliations:
Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand;Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand;Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Venue:
ACSC '13 Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth Australasian Computer Science Conference - Volume 135
Year:
2013

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Abstract

This paper investigates the addition of Clocked Variables to the X10 Programming Language. Clocked Variables work well for primitives and objects with only primitive fields, but incur substantial performance penalties for more complex objects. We discuss ways to deal with these issues.