Paper Details

@InProceedings{Brown06b,
  title = "{R}ain {VM}: {P}ortable {C}oncurrency through {M}anaging {C}ode",
  author= "Brown, Neil C.C.",
  editor= "Welch, Peter H. and Kerridge, Jon and Barnes, Frederick R. M.",
  pages = "253--267",
  booktitle= "{C}ommunicating {P}rocess {A}rchitectures 2006",
  isbn= "978-1-58603-671-3",
  year= "2006",
  month= "sep",
  abstract= "A long-running recent trend in computer programming is the
     growth in popularity of virtual machines. However, few have
     included good support for concurrency - a natural mechanism
     in the Rain programming language. This paper details the
     design and implementation of a secure virtual machine with
     support for concurrency, which enables portability of
     concurrent programs. Possible implementation ideas of
     many-to-many threading models for the virtual machine kernel
     are discussed, and initial benchmarks are presented. The
     results show that while the virtual machine is slow for
     standard computation, it is much quicker at running
     communication-heavy concurrent code - within an order of
     magnitude of the same native code."
}

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