[Colloquium] Farvardin/MS Presentation/Mar 31, 2017

[Margaret Jaffey via Colloquium]

This is an announcement of Kavon Farvardin's MS Presentation.

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Date:  Friday, March 31, 2017

Time:  10:30 AM

Place:  Ryerson 277

M.S. Candidate:  Kavon Farvardin

M.S. Paper Title: Weighing Continuations for Concurrency

Abstract:
There have been a number of efforts to broaden the use of lightweight
continuations for concurrency in programming languages, however, the
implementation trade-offs of various designs under sequential and
concurrent workloads are not well understood. Prior empirical
evaluations used cross-language and cross-compiler analyses, leaving
much of the folklore surrounding their performance without evidence.

We present the implementation of a single compiler and runtime system
that supports a broad range of strategies for continuations. Using
this compiler, we conduct an empirical analysis of both the
performance and challenges involved in implementing different forms of
continuations for high-performance concurrency.

Kavon's advisor is Prof. John Reppy

Login to the Computer Science Department website for details:
 https://www.cs.uchicago.edu/phd/ms_announcements#kavon

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