Control Abstraction in Parallel Programming Languages (1992)
| Venue: | In Proc. 4th International Conference on Computer Languages |
| Citations: | 4 - 3 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Crowl92controlabstraction,
author = {Lawrence A. Crowl and Thomas J. Leblanc},
title = {Control Abstraction in Parallel Programming Languages},
booktitle = {In Proc. 4th International Conference on Computer Languages},
year = {1992},
pages = {44--53}
}
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Abstract
ion in Parallel Programming Languages Lawrence A. Crowl Department of Computer Science Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon 97331-3202 Thomas J. LeBlanc Department of Computer Science University of Rochester Rochester, New York 14627-0226 Abstract Control abstraction is the process by which programmers define new control constructs, specifying a statement ordering separately from an implementation of that ordering. We argue that control abstraction can and should play a central role in parallel programming. Control abstraction can be used to build new control constructs for the expression of parallelism. A control construct can have several implementations, representing the varying degrees of parallelism to be exploited on different architectures. Control abstraction also reduces the need for explicit synchronization, since it admits a precise specification of control flow. Using several examples, we illustrate these benefits of control abstraction. We also show that we ...
