Mul-T: a high-performance parallel Lisp
- 21 June 1989
- proceedings article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Vol. 87 (7), 81-90
- https://doi.org/10.1145/73141.74825
Abstract
Mul-T is a parallel Lisp system, based on Multilisp's future construct, that has been developed to run on an Encore Multimax multiprocessor, Mul-T is an extended version of the Yale T system and uses the T system's ORBIT compiler to achieve "produc- tion quality" performance on stock hardware - about 100 times faster than Multilisp. Mul-T shows that fu- tures can be implemented cheaply enough to be useful in a production-quality system. Mul-T is fully opera- tional, including a user interface that supports manag- ing groups of parallel tasks.Keywords
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