ml threads

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ml threads - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  ML Threads
  
     SML/NJ with mutual exclusion primitives similar to those in
     Modula-2+ and Mesa.  Written by Greg Morrisett
     <jgmorris@cs.cmu.edu>.
  
     Lightweight threads are created using fork.  They are
     pre-emptively scheduled and communicate via shared memory
     which can be protected by a "mutex" (monitor).
  
     Implementations for Motorola 68020, SPARC and MIPS and
     VAX- and MIPS-based multiprocessors.
  
     ["Adding Threads to Standard ML", E. Cooper et al,
     CMU-CS-90-186, CMU Dec 1990].