High-level networking with mobile code and first order AND-continuations

  • Authors:
  • Paul Tarau;Veronica Dahl

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of North Texas, P.O. Box 311366, Denton, TX 76203, USA (e-mail: tarau@cs.unt.edu);Logic and Functional Programming Group, Department of Computing Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Canada (e-mail: veronica@cs.sfu.ca)

  • Venue:
  • Theory and Practice of Logic Programming
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We describe a scheme for moving living code between a set of distributed processes coordinated with unification based Linda operations, and its application to building a comprehensive Logic programming based Internet programming framework. Mobile threads are implemented by capturing first order continuations in a compact data structure sent over the network. Code is fetched lazily from its original base turned into a server as the continuation executes at the remote site. Our code migration techniques, in combination with a dynamic recompilation scheme, ensure that heavily used code moves up smoothly on a speed hierarchy while volatile dynamic code is kept in a quickly updatable form. Among the examples, we describe how to build programmable client and server components (Web servers, in particular) and mobile agents.