Using memory mapping to support cactus stacks in work-stealing runtime systems
I-Ting Angelina Lee, Silas Boyd-Wickizer, Zhiyi Huang, Charles E. Leiserson · 2010
Many multithreaded concurrency platforms that use a work-stealing runtime system incorporate a "cactus stack," wherein a function's accesses to stack variables properly respect the function's calling ancestry, even when many of the functions operate in parallel. Unfortunately, such existing concurrency platforms fail to satisfy at least one of the following three desirable criteria: