A Run-time System for SCOOP.
Michael Compton, Richard D. Walker · The Journal of Object Technology · 2002
Over a period of a decade Bertrand Meyer has promoted SCOOP -a concurrency mechanism designed especially for Eiffel -but no implementation has been made widely available.In this paper we describe our initial implementation of SCOOP using the GNU Eiffel compiler.We focus on the run-time system, showing how SCOOP's synchronization mechanisms depend on the solution of a dynamic mutual exclusion problem; we give a solution using a thread and lock manager.We present a number of benchmarks, and discuss which features remain to be completed.