%T Rain VM: Portable Concurrency through Managing Code
%A  Neil C.C. Brown
%E Peter H. Welch,  Jon Kerridge,  Frederick R. M. Barnes
%B Communicating Process Architectures 2006
%X 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.