Deny capabilities for safe, fast actors

Sylvan Clebsch, Sophia Drossopoulou, Sebastian Blessing, Andy McNeil
2015 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Programming Based on Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control - AGERE! 2015  
Combining the actor-model with shared memory for performance is efficient but can introduce data-races. Existing approaches to static data-race freedom are based on uniqueness and immutability, but lack flexibility and high performance implementations. Our approach, based on deny properties, allows reading, writing and traversing unique references, introduces a new form of write uniqueness, and guarantees atomic behaviours.
doi:10.1145/2824815.2824816 dblp:conf/agere/ClebschDBM15 fatcat:lud7czpxabf5hc343oj67ihywe