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Handout: consensus Overview of run-time systems Topic: Our understanding of run-time systems |
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Simple systems Read Andrew Appel, A Run-Time System Topic: The (old) run-time system for SML/NJ |
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Simple systems Topic: Followup on Appel's run-time system |
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18 Handout: Discussion questions for Simple Generational Garbage Collection and Fast Allocation (Appel) Handout: Understanding Call Stacks Simple garbage collectors Read Andrew Appel, Simple Generational Garbage Collection and Fast Allocation Topic: Appel's generational collector and its implementation of Appel's collector in the run-time system System to be scouted is approved by the end of class today |
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Simple garbage collectors Topic: Finishing up Appel's collector and the SML/NJ system |
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25 Handout: Class Exercise: Stack Walking Calling conventions and stack walking Read:
Topic: Walking a call stack |
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Looking at the stack: exceptions Read:
Topic: Two ways to implement exceptions |
28 Scouting reports due at 11:59PM |
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| October 2017 | ||||
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Case study (preliminaries) Topic: Choosing a system |
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Multiple stacks: threads Read Gordon V. Cormack (1988), A Micro-Kernel for Concurrency in C Topic: Synchronization and communication |
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9 No class: Indigenous Peoples' Day |
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Multiple stacks: threads Read Frigo, Leiserson, and Randall, The Implementation of the Cilk-5 Multithreaded Language Topic: Scheduling by work-stealing |
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Case study: Foreign and native calls in Lua Read:
Topic: Lua's C API and how it differs from a traditional FFI ECE ABET visit day. Class in Halligan 209 |
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Case study: Foreign and native calls in Lua Topic: Calls and call stacks in Lua |
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Garbage collection Read Marlow, Harris, Peyton Jones: Block-Structured Generational Collector Topic: Generational GC revisited: pages/arenas |
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25 Garbage collection Topic: Putting the parallel in parallel GC (using handout from previous class) OOPSLA (some students away) |
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Case study: Lua calls and FFI Topic: Implementations of call and pcall |
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Case study: Coroutines in Lua Read:
Topic: Coroutines: the programming model |
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| November 2017 | ||||
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Case study: Lua calls and FFI Topic: Implementations of call and pcall |
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Case study: Coroutines in Lua Read:
Topic: Coroutines: the programming model |
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6 Handout: Implementation of Lua coroutines Case study: Coroutines in Lua Topic: Coroutines: the implementation |
7 Last day to have let Norman know your plans for a final deliverable |
8
Case study: Message passing in Erlang Topic: Erlang's concurrency model |
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Case study: Message passing in Erlang Topic: Design space of message-passing implementations |
14 Good day to have sent Norman a first draft of your final deliverable |
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Case study: Message passing in Erlang Topic: Analysis of BEAM's message passing |
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Case study: Thread scheduling in Erlang Topic: Erlang's scheduler |
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22 No class: Thanksgiving |
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27 Handout: Foreign Calls in Haskell Foreign calls in Haskell Read:
Topic: Foreign calls in Haskell with H/Direct (compare with Lua FFI) |
28 Good day to get your final deliverable to a peer reviewer |
29
Implementing coroutines—the model Read Andrew Birrell (1989), An Introduction to Programming with Threads Topic: Implementing Lua coroutines using Cormack threads |
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| December 2017 | ||||
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27 Handout: Foreign Calls in Haskell Foreign calls in Haskell Read:
Topic: Foreign calls in Haskell with H/Direct (compare with Lua FFI) |
28 Good day to get your final deliverable to a peer reviewer |
29
Implementing coroutines—the model Read Andrew Birrell (1989), An Introduction to Programming with Threads Topic: Implementing Lua coroutines using Cormack threads |
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One-shot continuations Topic: One-shot continuations in Chez Scheme (compare with Lua coroutines) Last day to give Norman a draft in time to get feedback |
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Garbage collection Read Blackburn and McKinley: Immix: A Mark Region Garbage Collector... Topic: A hybrid collector |
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11 Handout: Class Retrospective: Instructions Retrospective Topic: Retrospective: what have we learned? |
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