Efficient backtracking in and-parallel implementations of non-deterministic languages
Enrico Pontelli, Gopal Gupta · 2002
We consider the problem of efficiently supporting backtracking in independent and-parallel non-deterministic systems. We consider this problem in the context of logic programming, although the solution proposed is sufficiently general to be applicable to any non-deterministic language or system. Our model employs various optimizations, as well as a novel memory organization scheme in which processors are allowed to traverse each others' stacks to achieve this efficiency. The solution developed has been implemented in the ACE Prolog system. The performance of the system is analyzed on a variety of non-deterministic benchmarks.