Refining Santa: An Exercise in Efficient Synchronization

Emil Sekerinski
(McMaster University) 		Shucai Yao
(McMaster University)

The Santa Claus Problem is an intricate exercise for concurrent programming. This paper outlines the refinement steps to develop a highly efficient implementation with concurrent objects, starting from a simple specification. The efficiency of the implementation is compared to those in other languages.

In John Derrick, Brijesh Dongol and Steve Reeves: Proceedings 18th Refinement Workshop (Refine 2018), Oxford, UK, 18th July 2018, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 282, pp. 68–86.
Published: 24th October 2018.
ArXived at: https://dx.doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.282.6 bibtex PDF
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