Linguistic symbiosis between event loop actors and threads

Computer Languages, Systems and Structures

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 80-98

  Van Cutsem, Tom ^a   Mostinckx, Stijn ^a   De Meuter, Wolfgang ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Actors; AmbientTalk; Events; Futures; Linguistic symbiosis; Threads

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; COMPUTERS; LINGUISTICS; MESSAGE PASSING; MULTITASKING; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; QUERY LANGUAGES;

ACTORS; AMBIENTTALK; EVENTS; FUTURES; LINGUISTIC SYMBIOSIS; THREADS;

CONCURRENCY CONTROL;

EID: 51649125887     PISSN: 14778424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cl.2008.06.005     Document Type: Article

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