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State of the art parallel object oriented languages allow the construction of rather complex parallel and distributed data structures. The handling of such data structures on secondary storage for purposes of incremental computing, checkpointing or swapping of user-defined working sets then becomes a task which is hard to perform with conventional I/O mechanisms. On the other hand language-level persistent objects can easily serve as a high-level I/O-substitute provided the associated over-head can be kept low. In this paper we show with the OCORE example how an existing object-oriented parallel programming language can be enhanced with efficient persistence features using the Vast framework.
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Nolte, J., Konaka, H., Hori, A., Ishikawa, Y., Maeda, M., Tomokiyo, T. (1996). Ocore and VAST — Integrating persistence into a parallel object-oriented language. In: Futatsugi, K., Matsuoka, S. (eds) Object Technologies for Advanced Software. ISOTAS 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1049. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60954-7_55
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