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A Portable Implementation for Objective Caml Flight

2003; World Scientific; Volume: 13; Issue: 03 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1142/s0129626403001392

1793-642X

Emmanuel Chailloux, Christian Foisy,

Distributed systems and fault tolerance

Caml-Flight is a data-parallel extension for Caml Light. It is an intermediate, portable and mostly deterministic functional language for distributed memory multiprocessors (DMM). Its current implementation modifies the Caml Light compiler to introduce new instructions for the language and its virtual machine, and to define a kind of persistence to communicate values. Caml Light has now evolved to become Objective Caml, including an object extension and a native compiler. To benefit from this new distribution, we propose a new implementation called Objective Caml Flight. To do so we use new libraries and tools included in Objective Caml such as multi-threading, persistence and parsers, i.e. without modification to the original compiler needed with the Caml-Flight approach. This paper presents an easier way to implement parallel extensions for Objective Caml and an actual realization called Objective Caml Flight. This new implementation is compared to Caml-Flight.