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A Comparison of Monitors and Message Passing

Author(s) -

Jørgen Staunstrup

Publication year - 1978

Publication title -

daimi report series

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2245-9316

pISSN - 0105-8517

DOI - 10.7146/dpb.v7i92.6508

Subject(s) - computer science , message passing , pascal (unit) , programming language , concurrency , synchronization (alternating current) , field (mathematics) , concurrent computing , theoretical computer science , distributed computing , computer network , mathematics , pure mathematics , channel (broadcasting)

One of the issues which receives much attention in the field of concurrent programming is communication and synchronization primitives. Many primitives have been proposed but two main philosophies have evolved: monitors and message passing. The two programming languages Concurrent Pascal and Platon represent these two different approaches. By looking at a few algorithms written in the two languages, the two approaches are analyzed and compared.

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