PIPES: Linguistic Support for Ordered Asynchronous Invocations

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Colbrook, Adrian; Brewer, Eric A.; Hsieh, Wilson C.; Wang, Paul; Weihl, William E.
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Abstract
We describe pipes, a new linguistic mechanism for sequences of ordered asynchronous procedure calls in multiprocessor systems. Pipes allow a sequence of remote invocations to be performed in order, but asynchronously with respect to the calling thread.
Date issued
1992-04
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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/149726
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MIT-LCS-TR-539
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