N3874: Light-Weight Execution Agents -- Torvald Riegel

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Document number: N3874

Date: 2014-01-20

Light-Weight Execution Agents

by Torvald Riegel

Excerpt:

This paper is an initial attempt at de ning light-weight execution agents (EAs), which can be used to run more than one thread of execution but provide weaker forward progress guarantees and/or fewer features than OS threads (see Section 2). From this perspective, threads would be a rather heavy-weigth variant among several kinds of EAs. This work is based on or has been motivated by prior discussions in SG1. It also is at an early stage, so I will conclude by discussing some of the open questions in Section 3.

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