Designing a Zero-Cost Abstraction for Memory-Safe Threading by Jacob

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Designing a Zero-Cost Abstraction for Memory-Safe Threading by Jacob

Multithreaded programming offers significant performance benefits by leveraging multiple cores or processors. However, it introduces complexity and potential pitfalls, particularly around memory safety. Designing abstractions that provide safe and efficient threading remains a challenge. This paper explores the concept of a zero-cost abstraction for memory-safe threading, discussing its properties, potential design approaches, and trade-offs. What is Zero-Cost Abstraction? In the context of programming languages, a zero-cost abstraction refers to a feature that provides a higher-level interface without incurring any performance overhead compared to manually implementing the functionality at a lower level. This ideal eliminates the trade-off between programmer convenience and performance, making safe practices the natural choice. Memory Safety in Threading Memory safety ensures that threads access memory locations correctly, preventing issues like data races, use-after-free, and dangling pointers. These issues can lead to program crashes, unexpected behavior, and security vulnerabilities.

Corinne Blanquart is a senior researcher at IFSTTAR in France. She heads the SPLOTT laboratory and conducts research on freight transport and logistics. More specifically, her areas of research are freight demand analysis and retailers' logistics in France and Germany.

Uwe Clausen is managing director of the Institute of Transport Logistics at TU Dortmund University, Germany and director of the Fraunhofer-Institute for material flow and logistics in Dortmund. His research areas include green logistics, commercial traffic modeling, intermodal transportation, mathematical optimization, network optimization and distribution systems.

Bernard Jacob, chair of the Programme Committee of TRA2014, is deputy scientific director for transport, infrastructures and safety with IFSTTAR. His research works are in bridge and road safety, traffic loads on bridges, heavy vehicles and weigh-in-motion. He is Professor at Ecole Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'Etat in France, and President of the International Society for WIM (ISWIM).

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ISBN 13 9783384253149
ISBN 10 3384253140
Title Designing a Zero-Cost Abstraction for Memory-Safe Threading
Author Jacob
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Tredition Gmbh
Year published 2024-06-07
Number of pages 78
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