TITLE    = Efficient Organization of Control Structures in Distributed 
           Implementations

FILE     = /pub/reports/others/cc94.ps.Z
AUTHORS  = Guido Hogen and Rita Loogen
PAGES    = 15
ABSTRACT = A new technique for the management of control structures in 
           distributed implementations of dynamic process systems is presented.
           Instead of storing the runtime stacks of parallel processes as linked
           lists of activation blocks in a heap structure, the local stacks of
           several parallel processes, which are executed on the same processor
           element, are stored in an interleaved manner on a single physical
           stack (within each processor element), called the {\em meshed stack}.
           The technique ensures that there is almost no overhead for the
           evaluation of single processes due to the parallel environment. In   
           principle, the meshed stack technique is independent of the 
           implemented language. We explain it for the parallel implementation 
           of functional languages.