• DOI:10.1145/181468.181474
• Corpus ID: 17557993

Automatic compiler recognition of monitor tasks

@article{Schilling1994AutomaticCR,
  title={Automatic compiler recognition of monitor tasks},
  author={Jonathan L. Schilling and Johan Olm{\"u}tz Nielsen},
  journal={ACM Sigada Ada Letters},
  year={1994},
  pages={91-104}
}

• Jonathan L. Schilling, J. Nielsen
• Published 1 May 1994
• Computer Science
• ACM Sigada Ada Letters

Monitor tasks, also known as passive tasks, are a kind of Ada task that is subject to well-known and very powerful optimization. In most compilation systems that perform this optimization, monitor tasks are identified to the complier by the user, via an implementation-defined pragma. This paper describes an alternate approach, whereby the compiler automatically recognizes and optimizes monitor tasks, without need of a pragma, compiler option, or any other user action. The advantages and disadvantages of this approach are discussed, both in terms of the functional impact to the user and the execution-time efficiency of the optimization.