Presto

Presto is an object-oriented threads package for writing parallel programs on a shared-memory multiprocessor. The system adds thread objects and synchronization objects to C++ to allow programmers to create and control parallelism.

• WWW Page: http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/projects/parsw/
  Benchmarks/Presto/www/index.html
• FTP Server:
  • cs.washington.edu:/pub/presto1.0.tar.Z
  • softserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de:/pub/
    parallel/PRESTO
• Bibliography:
  • B. Bershad, E. Lazowska, and H. Levy. Presto: A System for Object-Oriented Parallel Programming. Software - Practice and Experience, 18(8):713--732, August 1988.
  • J.E. Faust and H.M. Levy. The Performance of an Object-Oriented Threads Package. In ECOOP/OOPSLA'90 Proceedings, pages 278--289, October 1990.
  • R. Thekkath and S.J. Eggers. The PRESTO Application Suite. Technical Report 94-09-01, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, September 1994.
• See also Mercury

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