Paper Info
Title
TigerQuoll: parallel event-based JavaScript
Abstract
JavaScript, the most popular language on the Web, is rapidly moving to the server-side, becoming even more pervasive. Still, JavaScript lacks support for shared memory parallelism, making it challenging for developers to exploit multicores present in both servers and clients. In this paper we present TigerQuoll, a novel API and runtime for parallel programming in JavaScript. TigerQuoll features an event-based API and a parallel runtime allowing applications to exploit a mutable shared memory space. The programming model of TigerQuoll features automatic consistency and concurrency management, such that developers do not have to deal with shared-data synchronization. TigerQuoll supports an innovative transaction model that allows for eventual consistency to speed up high-contention workloads. Experiments show that TigerQuoll applications scale well, allowing one to implement common parallelism patterns in JavaScript.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2442516.2442541
PPOPP
Keywords
Field
DocType
event-based api,innovative transaction model,tigerquoll applications scale,parallel event-based javascript,multicores present,novel api,eventual consistency,parallel programming,automatic consistency,memory space,common parallelism pattern,javascript,event based programming
Eventual consistency,Programming language,Programming paradigm,Shared memory,Concurrency,Computer science,Unobtrusive JavaScript,Server,Parallel computing,JavaScript,Event-driven programming
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
48
8
0362-1340
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.43
17
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniele Bonetta18112.87
Walter Binder2107792.58
Cesare Pautasso31438132.78