Abstract. This case study applies techniques of formal program development by specification refinement and composition to the problem of concurrent garbage collection. The speci...
Concurrent and incremental collectors require barriers to ensure correct synchronisation between mutator and collector. The overheads imposed by particular barriers on particular ...
Laurence Hellyer, Richard Jones, Antony L. Hosking
Abstract. Large-scale distributed computing applications require concurrent programming models that support modular and compositional software development. The actor model supports...
Wei-Jen Wang, Carlos A. Varela, Fu-Hau Hsu, Cheng-...