The Composability Problem of Events and Threads in Distributed Systems
Event-driven programming has been a relatively hot topic in distributed systems development. Having worked on these systems for years, we now believe that it is not the best choice. Besides the wellknown stack ripping problem, we argue that it greatly influences the composability of software modules. Preemptive threads are also short of composability because of data-races and locks. Lacking of composability can result in systems with little vitality. Cooperative threading (or coroutine), on the contrary, is almost free of this problem, so we advocate it as the primary concurrency model for most distributed systems.
distributed systems thread event composability
Huiba Li Yuxing Peng Xicheng Lu
National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China, 410073
国际会议
上海
英文
311-315
2010-06-22（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）