Set of Multi-Process Primitives for Stack Based Machines

摘要

The document describes primitives and higher level routines, implemented with these primitives, that can be used to simulate parallelism or to handle coroutine switching. The primitives can be written in a few lines of assembly code. Modula-2's newprocess and transfer can be easily implemented with these primitives. Higher level constructs like Occam's parallelism and channels can be expressed in the higher level routines.