Featherweight Threads for Communication - 2011 (parasites_tech11...

Featherweight Threads forCommunicationKC Sivaramakrishnan Lukasz ZiarekSuresh JagannathanCSD TR #11-018 October 2011Featherweight Threads for CommunicationKC Sivaramakrishnan Lukasz Ziarek Suresh Jagannathan Purdue University{chandras, lziarek, suresh}@cs.purdue.eduAbstract Message-passing is an attractive thread coordination mechanism because it cleanly delineates points in an execution when threads communicate, and unifies synchronization and communication. To enable greater performance, as