Engines build process abstractions

  • Authors:
  • Christopher T. Haynes;Daniel P. Friedman

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • LFP '84 Proceedings of the 1984 ACM Symposium on LISP and functional programming
  • Year:
  • 1984

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Abstract

Engines are a new programming language abstraction for timed preemption. In conjunction with first class continuations, engines allow the language to be extended with a time-sharing implementation of process abstraction facilities. To illustrate engine programming techniques, we implement a round-robin process scheduler. The importance of simple but powerful primitives such as engines is discussed.