Gyre

My term project for Professor Spencer Rugaber's CS 6390, Gyre investigates programming language support for communicating sequential processes, especially on manycore NUMA machines. It is heavily indebted to Erlang, borrowing many themes and a great deal of syntax from that language. Other influences include Concurrent ML (CML) and the BLISS systems programming language. It is partially an outgrowth of my work on libtorque, and a UNIX implementation would likely make use of that library.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe.

-- Lewis Carroll

Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world

-- William Butler Yeats

See Also

• 2008, Van Roy, Haridi. Concepts, Techiques, and Models of Computer Programming.
• 2008, Lameed. "Implementing Concurrency in a Process-based Language".
• 2006, Grogono and Shearing. "A Modular Language for Concurrent Programming".
• 1996, Armstrong, Williams, Wikstrom, Virding. Concurrent Programming in Erlang.