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COOL: An Object-Based Language for Parallel Programming

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Rohit Chandra,

Anoop Gupta,

John L. HennessyAuthors Info & Claims

Computer, Volume 27, Issue 8

Pages 13 - 26

https://doi.org/10.1109/2.303616

Published: 01 August 1994 Publication History

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Effectively using shared-memory multiprocessors requires substantial programming effort. We present the programming language COOL (Concurrent Object-Oriented Language), which was designed to exploit coarse-grained parallelism at the task level in shared-memory multiprocessors. COOL's primary design goals are efficiency and expressiveness. By efficiency we mean that the language constructs should be efficient to implement and a program should not have to pay for features it does not use. By expressiveness, we imply that the program should flexibly support different concurrency patterns, thereby allowing various decompositions of a problem. COOL emphasizes the integration of concurrency and synchronization with data abstraction to ease the task of creating modular and efficient parallel programs. It is an extension of C++, which was chosen because it supports abstract data type definitions and is widely used.

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