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From: dor@lanl.gov (David O. Rich)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: Optimistic / Speculative Programming
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Date: 5 Oct 89 14:56:42 GMT
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>From article <6672@hubcap.clemson.edu>, by byu@csri.toronto.edu (Benjamin Yu):
> I would appreciate information in current research on optimistic /
> speculative programming.  I know of some "old" articles such as
> Jefferson's Time Warp (Toplas July 1985), Halstead's Futures but
> haven't been able to track down more current work.  Any pointers 
> will be much appreciated!
> 

Richard Fujimoto
"The Virtual Time Machine"
Technical Report UUCS-88-021
University of Utah
December 1988
(also published in an ACM journal, 1989...
 I can't seem to find that reference though)

Pete Tinker (pat@risc.com)
Rockwell International Science Center
"Task Scheduling for General Rollback Computing"
ICPP 1988 (I think?)

Pete Tinker and Morry Katz
Rockwell International Science Center
"Parallel Execution of Sequential Scheme with ParaTran"
1988 Lisp and Functional Programming Conference


--Dave