Effectively tackling the awkward squad | Paper by Anil Madhavapeddy

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In the ACM ML Workshop, Sep 2017
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Abstract. Useful real-world functional programs must often confront the Awkward Squad, a range of un-beautiful issues concerning the interplay between concurrency, input/output, exceptions, resources, etc. We show that algebraic effects and their handlers can elegantly express such programs without compromising performance. In particular, we introduce asynchronous effects and their handlers, and show how they elegantly solve the interaction between user-level threads and operating system services.

Authors. Stephen Dolan, Spiros Eliopoulos, Daniel Hillerstrom, Anil Madhavapeddy, KC Sivaramakrishnan and Leo White

See Also. This publication was part of the OCaml Labs project.

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