Concurrency Abstraction Watch
The MESCAL project is interested in finding and categorizing design abstractions that seek to help
engineers manage concurrency at both the application and architecture levels.
- An application-level concurrency abstraction is a language programmers can use to declare
concurrency intuitively and precisely, without having to specify implementation details.
An application abstraction captures concepts that are important for particular application domains without
reference to a particular target architecture.
- An architecture-level concurrency abstraction is a way to express the capabilities of an
architectural platform. Its goal is to balance visibility into the architectural features that are necessary
to obtain high-performance implementations while hiding details that sap productivity.
We eschew the term programming model. Despite the word "programming" in the name, a traditional
programming model is actually an architectural abstraction. The terms architecture abstraction and application
abstraction avoid this confusion.
Details coming soon
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