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Effectively using shared-memory multiprocessors requires substantial programming effort. We present the programming language COOL (Concurrent Object-Oriented Language), which was designed to exploit coarse-grained parallelism at the task level in shared-memory multiprocessors. COOL's primary design goals are efficiency and expressiveness. By efficiency we mean that the language constructs should be efficient to implement and a program should not have to pay for features it does not use. By expressiveness, we imply that the program should flexibly support different concurrency patterns, thereby allowing various decompositions of a problem. COOL emphasizes the integration of concurrency and synchronization with data abstraction to ease the task of creating modular and efficient parallel programs. It is an extension of C++, which was chosen because it supports abstract data type definitions and is widely used.<
Published in:
Computer
(Volume:27
,
Issue:
8
)
Date of Publication: Aug. 1994
- Page(s):
- 13 - 26
- ISSN :
- 0018-9162
- INSPEC Accession Number:
- 4786207
- Digital Object Identifier :
- 10.1109/2.303616
- Product Type:
- Journals & Magazines
- Date of Current Version :
- 06 August 2002
- Issue Date :
- Aug. 1994
- Sponsored by :
- IEEE Computer Society
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