A comparison of concurrent programming and cooperative multithreading

This paper presents a comparison of the cooperative multithreading model with the general concurrent programming model. It focuses on the execution time performance of a range of standard concurrent programming applications. The overall results are mixed. In some cases, programs written in the coope...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Concurrency and computation Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 27 - 53
Main Authors: Keen, Aaron W., Ishihara, Takashi, Maris, Justin T., Li, Tiejun, Fodor, Eugene F., Olsson, Ronald A.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.01.2003
Subjects:
concurrent programming
cooperative multithreading
parallel and distributed programming languages
synchronization mechanisms
synchronization optimization
ISSN:1532-0626, 1532-0634
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:This paper presents a comparison of the cooperative multithreading model with the general concurrent programming model. It focuses on the execution time performance of a range of standard concurrent programming applications. The overall results are mixed. In some cases, programs written in the cooperative multithreading model outperform those written in the general concurrent programming model. The contributions of this paper are twofold. First, it presents a thorough analysis of the performances of applications in the different models, i.e. to explain the criteria that determine when a program in one model will outperform an equivalent program in the other. Second, it examines the tradeoffs in writing programs in the different programming styles. In some cases, better performance comes at the cost of more complicated code. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Bibliography:Z-World, Inc. and the University of California under the MICRO program
ArticleID:CPE706
istex:CCB133FF5C399063919D80A0A8987301A471E83D
ark:/67375/WNG-TB681QM6-5
A preliminary version of this paper appeared in Euro–Par 2000, held in Munich, Germany, August 2000
ObjectType-Article-2
SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
ObjectType-Feature-1
content type line 23
ISSN:1532-0626
1532-0634
DOI:10.1002/cpe.706