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9789810240493

Functions, Objects and Parallelism : Programming in Balinda K

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    9789810240493

  • ISBN10:

    981024049X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-08-01
  • Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC
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Summary

Designed to show how programming will be changed by the concepts of parallel systems and how these concepts relate to the ideas of functions and objects, and demonstrates the kind of programming that can be done on these systems.

Table of Contents

Preface v
Introduction
1(18)
Parallel Processing
1(3)
Parallel Program Models
4(3)
Parallel Programming and Operating Systems
7(5)
BaLinda K
12(4)
Plan for the Book
16(3)
Further Reading
16(3)
Parallel Programming: The Basic Constructs
19(26)
Fork and Join Construct
19(6)
Parallel Procedure Calls
25(1)
Exclusion and Monitors
26(4)
Synchronization and Rendezvous
30(3)
Tuples and Messages
33(3)
Semaphores
36(4)
Limits of Parallel Processing
40(5)
Further Reading
43(2)
Functional Programming
45(20)
Lisp
45(5)
LAMBDA Calculus
50(7)
Functional Programming and Parallelism
57(5)
More on BaLinda K Loops
62(3)
Further Reading
64(1)
Programming with Parallel Functions and Tuples
65(26)
Parallel BaLinda K
65(3)
Synchronization with Tuples
68(6)
Speculative Processing
74(2)
Dining Philosophers and Consumer-Producer Problem
76(5)
Some Numerical Problems
81(3)
Search Problems
84(7)
Further Reading
89(2)
Objects in BaLinda K
91(32)
Objects
91(3)
Objects from Functions
94(9)
Inheritance
103(4)
Scoping
107(4)
Class, type and generic functions
111(12)
Further Reading
120(3)
Active Objects
123(40)
Objects and Parallelism
123(14)
Tuple Space and Object Boundary
137(4)
Program and Task Management
141(6)
Tasking Control
147(4)
Reflective Computing
151(6)
Inheritance Anomaly
157(6)
Further Reading
160(3)
Application Case Studies --- Stock Trading System and Salishan Problems
163(16)
Order Matching System
163(3)
Event-Driven Simulation
166(5)
Functions and Objects
171(2)
Salishan Problems
173(6)
Further Reading
177(2)
Reviewing the Progress
179

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