Protothreads
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In computer science, protothreads are a low-overhead mechanism for concurrent programming.
Protothreads function as stackless, lightweight threads providing a blocking context cheaply using only two bytes per protothread.
[edit] References
- A. Dunkels, O. Schmidt, T. Voigt, and M. Ali, Protothreads: Simplifying Event-Driven Programming of Memory-Constrained Embedded Systems, Proc. ACM SenSys, Boulder, CO, USA, Nov 2006. (PDF, Presentation slides)
[edit] External links
- Protothread library in C used by Contiki
- Using Protothreads for Sensor Node Programming A PDF with some in-depth discussion about the use of Protothreads
- Protothreads library in Objective-C
