Continuation-based multiprocessing
Mitchell Wand · 1980
Any multiprocessing facility must include three features: elementary exclusion, data protection, and process saving. While elementary exclusion must rest on some hardware facility (e.g. a test-and-set instruction), the other two requirements are fulfilled by features already present in applicative languages. Data protection may be obtained through the use of procedures (closures or funargs),and process saving may be obtained through the use of the CATCH operator. The use of CATCH, in particular, allows an elegant treatment of process saving.