Chord (concurrency)

A chord is a concurrency construct available in Polyphonic C♯ and Cω inspired by the join pattern of the join-calculus.

Synchronicity

Cω defines two types of functions synchronous and asynchronous. A synchronous function acts like a standard function in most Object-Oriented Language, upon invocation the function body is executed and a return value may or may not be returned to the caller. An asynchronous function acts similar to a function that returns void except that it is guaranteed to return immediately with the execution being done in a separate thread.

Chord Definition

A chord is a function body that is associated with multiple function headers and cannot execute until all function headers are called.^[1]

References

1. ^ "Cω Overview". http://research.microsoft.com/Comega/doc/comega_whatis.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-10.