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Contents
Contents
The SALSA Programming Language
Release Tutorial
Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Introduction
The SALSA Distributed Programming Language
Structure of the Tutorial
Actor-Oriented Programming
The Actor Model
How SALSA Supports the Actor Model
Beyond the Actor Model
Writing Concurrent Programs
SALSA Language Support for Actor State Modification
Actor Creation
Message Passing
Coordinating Concurrency
Token passing continuations
Join continuations
First-class continuations
I/O Actor Access
Writing Your First SALSA Program
Steps to compile and execute your SALSA program
Hello World
example
Compiling and running
Hello World
Writing Distributed Programs
Worldwide Computing Model
World-wide computer (WWC) architecture
Universal naming - UAN and UAL
Actor garbage collection
How SALSA Supports the Worldwide Computing Model
Universal actor creation
Referencing actors
Migration
Service
Run-Time Support for WWC Application
Theaters
Universal naming service
Running an application
Local actor garbage collection
Optional distributed garbage collection service
Advanced Concurrency Coordination
Named Tokens
Join Continuations
Message Properties
Property:
priority
Property:
delay
Property:
waitfor
Property:
delayWaitfor
Bibliography
Name Server Options and System Properties
Name Server Options
System Properties
Debugging Tips
Learning SALSA by Example Code
Package examples
Package tests
SALSA GRAMMAR
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Wei-Jen Wang 2006-10-14
