%0 Journal Article %1 VanCutsem200980 %A Cutsem, Tom Van %A Mostinckx, Stijn %A Meuter, Wolfgang De %D 2009 %J Computer Languages, Systems & Structures %K Actors Concurrency Encapsulation JVM Java Reflection Symbiosis %N 1 %P 80 - 98 %R 10.1016/j.cl.2008.06.005 %T Linguistic Symbiosis Between Event Loop Actors and Threads %U http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1477842408000249 %V 35 %X In modern programming languages, concurrency control can be traced back to one of two different schools: actor-based message passing concurrency and thread-based shared-state concurrency. This paper describes a linguistic symbiosis between two programming languages with such different concurrency models. More specifically, we describe a novel symbiosis between actors represented as event loops on the one hand and threads on the other. This symbiosis ensures that the invariants of the actor-based concurrency model are not violated by engaging in symbiosis with multithreaded programs. The proposed mapping is validated by means of a concrete symbiosis between AmbientTalk, a flexible, domain-specific language for writing distributed programs and Java, a conventional object-oriented language. This symbiosis allows the domain-specific language to reuse existing software components written in a multithreaded language without sacrificing the beneficial event-driven properties of the actor concurrency model.

@article{VanCutsem200980, abstract = {In modern programming languages, concurrency control can be traced back to one of two different schools: actor-based message passing concurrency and thread-based shared-state concurrency. This paper describes a linguistic symbiosis between two programming languages with such different concurrency models. More specifically, we describe a novel symbiosis between actors represented as event loops on the one hand and threads on the other. This symbiosis ensures that the invariants of the actor-based concurrency model are not violated by engaging in symbiosis with multithreaded programs. The proposed mapping is validated by means of a concrete symbiosis between AmbientTalk, a flexible, domain-specific language for writing distributed programs and Java, a conventional object-oriented language. This symbiosis allows the domain-specific language to reuse existing software components written in a multithreaded language without sacrificing the beneficial event-driven properties of the actor concurrency model.}, added-at = {2011-08-10T23:08:05.000+0200}, author = {Cutsem, Tom Van and Mostinckx, Stijn and Meuter, Wolfgang De}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2e0f8c5ddac6dd445b4ac8ae2c7cbe92c/gron}, description = {ScienceDirect - Computer Languages, Systems & Structures : Linguistic symbiosis between event loop actors and threads}, doi = {10.1016/j.cl.2008.06.005}, interhash = {1c340aa57fe8c94911b3a4226e5c7507}, intrahash = {e0f8c5ddac6dd445b4ac8ae2c7cbe92c}, issn = {1477-8424}, journal = {Computer Languages, Systems & Structures}, keywords = {Actors Concurrency Encapsulation JVM Java Reflection Symbiosis}, note = {ESUG 2007 International Conference on Dynamic Languages (ESUG/ICDL 2007)}, number = 1, pages = {80 - 98}, timestamp = {2011-08-10T23:08:05.000+0200}, title = {Linguistic Symbiosis Between Event Loop Actors and Threads}, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1477842408000249}, volume = 35, year = 2009 }