Patent ID: 8719803
Filing Date: 2014-05-06
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method which may be used by a software developer to configure a program for control parallelism, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining a control parallelism interface, namely, obtaining at least one procedure heading for assigning a parallelism policy procedure which implements evaluation of a parallelism condition that is unspecified in the control parallelism interface; and using the control parallelism interface to assign at least one parallelism policy procedure in a program, the assigned parallelism policy procedure having a body containing instructions which specify the parallelism condition, the parallelism policy procedure assigned by using at least one of the following actions: calling a factory method to construct a policy procedure instance, instantiating a policy procedure class, linking a policy procedure, setting a policy procedure address pointer, associating a policy procedure body with a policy procedure heading so that invocation based on the policy procedure heading passes control to the policy procedure body.