Mercury

Mercury is an environment for writing object-oriented parallel programs in C++ that provides the user with simple primitives for inexpensive thread creation and blocking and spinning synchronization.

It is derived from the Presto library package. The main additions are the introduction of a new construct called template which implements a very light weight task facility, the distribution of all data structures to avoid bottlenecks, the ability to control the scheduling of either threads or templates, and the implementation of barrier synchronization.

• Ftp Server: ftp://ftp.cs.rochester.edu/pub/u/kthanasi/
• Bibliography:
  • L. Kontothanassis. The Mercury User's Manual. University of Rochester, August 1993. Postscript version
• See also Presto

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