Run-Time Support for Distributed Sharing in Typed Languages
This paper addresses run-time support for sharing objects in a typed language between the different computers within a cluster. Typing must be strong enough that it is possible to determine unambiguously whether a memory location contains an object reference or not. Many modern languages fall under...
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| Language: | English |
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2000
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.35.5098 http://www.cs.rice.edu/~weimin/papers/dosa.ps |
| Summary: | This paper addresses run-time support for sharing objects in a typed language between the different computers within a cluster. Typing must be strong enough that it is possible to determine unambiguously whether a memory location contains an object reference or not. Many modern languages fall under this category, including Java and Modula-3. Direct access through a reference to object data is supported, unlike Java/RMI or Orca [2], where remote object access is restricted to method invocation. Furthermore, in languages with suitable multithreading support, such as Java, distributed execution is transparent: no new API is introduced for distributed sharing. This transparency distinguishes this work from many earlier distributed object sharing systems [2, 7, 14, 12]. |
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