Experience with Acore: Implementing GHC with Actors
Author(s) • • •
Palmucci, Jeff
Waldsburger, Carl
Duis, David
Krause, Paul
Date Issued
August 1, 1990
Series/Report no.
AIM-1106
Abstract
This paper presents a concurrent interpreter for a general-purpose concurrent logic programming language, Guarded Horn Clauses (GHC). Unlike typical implementations of GHC in logic programming languages, the interpreter is implemented in the Actor language Acore. The primary motivation for this work was to probe the strengths and weaknesses of Acore as a platform for developing sophisticated programs. The GHC interpreter provided a rich testbed for exploring Actor programming methodology. The interpreter is a pedagogical investigation of the mapping of GHC constructs onto the Actor model. Since we opted for simplicity over optimization, the interpreter is somewhat inefficient.
Subjects
parallel programming
object-oriented
concurrent logicsprogramming
message-passing
actors
Guarded Horn Clauses (GHC)
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