A Case Study in Concurrent Programming with Active Objects

The recent product development of processors shows that multi-core computer architectures are rapidly becoming reality. Therefore, in order to use the available processing power, operating systems and programming languages supporting the development of multi-threaded software will be needed. In this...

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Published inLecture notes in computer science pp. 403 - 414
Main Authors Glavitsch, Ulrike, Frey, Thomas M.
Format Book Chapter Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2006
Springer
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Applied sciences
Artificial intelligence
Computer science; control theory; systems
Exact sciences and technology
Programming languages
Software
Speech and sound recognition and synthesis. Linguistics
Software development
Thread (software)
Synchronization
Multicore processor
Multithread
Programming language
User interface
Concurrency
Computer architecture
Modular programming
Language development
Product development
Operating system
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Summary:The recent product development of processors shows that multi-core computer architectures are rapidly becoming reality. Therefore, in order to use the available processing power, operating systems and programming languages supporting the development of multi-threaded software will be needed. In this paper, we present a small case study that shows how elegant and safe concurrent programming can be if a powerful programming language and thread-safe libraries are used. The case study is a simple search tool written in Active Oberon. The application uses a thread-safe GUI framework that relieves the programmer from synchronizing requests.
ISBN:3540409270
9783540409274
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/11860990_25