A Concurrent Language with a Uniform Treatment of Regions and Locks

A challenge for programming language research is to design and implement multi-threaded low-level languages providing static guarantees for memory safety and freedom from data races. Towards this goal, we sketch a concurrent language employing safe region-based memory management and hierarchical locking of regions. Both regions and locks are treated uniformly, and the language supports ownership transfer, early deallocation of regions and early release of locks in a safe manner.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2009
• Where: CORR
• Authors: Prodromos Gerakios, Nikolaos Papaspyrou, Konstantinos F. Sagonas
• Keywords: CORR 2009, Education, Multi-threaded Low-level Languages, Safe Region-based Memory, Static Guarantees