Abstract Lightweight Concurrency Primitives for GHC
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@MISC{Li_abstractlightweight,
author = {Peng Li and Simon Marlow},
title = {Abstract Lightweight Concurrency Primitives for GHC},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) has quite sophisticated support for concurrency in its runtime system, which is written in lowlevel C code. As GHC evolves, the runtime system becomes increasingly complex, error-prone, difficult to maintain and difficult to add new concurrency features. This paper presents an alternative approach to implement concurrency in GHC. Rather than hard-wiring all kinds of concurrency features, the runtime system is a thin substrate providing only a small set of concurrency primitives, and the remaining concurrency features are implemented in software libraries written in Haskell. This design improves the safety of concurrency support; it also provides more customizability of concurrency features, which can be developed as Haskell library packages and deployed modularly. Categories and Subject Descriptors D.1.1 [Programming Techniques]:
