WARASA: an enhanced C++ for concurrent programming on shared memory multiprocessor computers

Author

Jiang, Yun ; Makinouch, Akifumi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Commun. Eng., Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan

fYear

1992

fDate

21-25 Sep 1992

Firstpage

257

Lastpage

262

Abstract

The authors propose an object-oriented programming language called WARASA for writing concurrent object-oriented program on Mach-based shared memory multiprocessor computers. WARASA is an extension to C⁺⁺ to allow a programmer to develop concurrent programming. In designing WARASA, the parallel mechanisms on the Mach operating system are combined with the object-oriented paradigm. It enables users to develop concurrent programs easily and efficiently, because some implementation details such as locking and unlocking which programmers would have to know to write parallel programs are hidden. An overview of WARASA is given. The features of WARASA class models are discussed. Some applications are shown to demonstrate WARASA´s expressive power

Keywords

high level languages; object-oriented programming; parallel programming; shared memory systems; Mach operating system; Mach-based; WARASA; concurrent programming; enhanced C++; locking; object-oriented programming language; shared memory multiprocessor computers; unlocking; Application software; Computer languages; Concurrent computing; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Operating systems; Parallel processing; Parallel programming; Programming profession; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1992. COMPSAC '92. Proceedings., Sixteenth Annual International

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3000-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPSAC.1992.217558

Filename

217558