Tasty » Adam Sampson's concurrency bookmarks

Squawks of the Parrot: Functions and subs in a threaded world edit / delete

"What if function and subroutine calls all spawned off their own threads and ran independently?" Reinventing the occam model again (as someone points out in the comments).

to concurrency language programming python research ... on 16 February 2006

Synchronization with eventcounts and sequencers edit / delete

Paper describing the Unos "eventcount" communications mechanism, which has some interesting properties.

to concurrency research retrocomputing ... on 01 February 2006

Kamaelia edit / delete

The BBC R&D Python concurrency library for multimedia. Cool stuff. (Thought I'd bookmarked it before, but hey.)

to broadcast concurrency python research video ... on 31 January 2006

Coro edit / delete

Coroutines (with IO, channels, semaphores etc.) for Perl.

to concurrency perl research software ... on 26 January 2006

Welcome to MyHDL [MyHDL] edit / delete

A Python package for generating FPGA designs. Another instance of the concurrency-using-generators idea (as seen in Kamaelia), but using Python to generate FPGA code is novel.

to concurrency fpga python research software ... on 24 January 2006

Composable Memory Transactions edit / delete

Another approach to concurrency from Microsoft Research. I can't imagine wanting to use this for applications programming, and it seems that it'd be terribly inefficient to implement, but it's an interesting read anyway.

to concurrency research ... on 10 January 2006

DDJ>Thoughts on Language Design edit / delete

Guy L. Steele on designing a parallel language -- and, more specifically, on how we might like to reconsider some of the tenets of structured programming while doing so.

to concurrency design language parallel programming research ... on 30 December 2005

What Happened on Mars? edit / delete

Priority inversion problems on Pathfinder.

to bugs concurrency research ... on 26 December 2005

Lock -Free Data Structures using STMs in Haskell edit / delete

to concurrency haskell research ... on 25 December 2005

The Apache Cocoon Project edit / delete

"Cocoon implements these concepts around the notion of 'component pipelines', each component on the pipeline specializing on a particular operation. This makes it possible to use a Lego(tm)-like approach in building web solutions, hooking together compone

to concurrency network research software ... on 01 December 2005