Presto
adverb
1.
quickly, rapidly, or immediately.
2.
at a rapid tempo (used as a musical direction).
adjective
3.
quick or rapid.
4.
executed at a rapid tempo (used as a musical direction).
noun, plural prestos.
5.
Music. a movement or piece in quick tempo.
adjective, adverb
1.
(music) to be played very fast
adverb
2.
immediately, suddenly, or at once (esp in the phrase hey presto)
noun (pl) -tos
3.
(music) a movement or passage directed to be played very quickly
A parallel language for shared-memory multiprocessors, built on top of C++ by Bershad et al, U Washington 1987. PRESTO provides classes for threads and spinlocks as well as Mesa-style monitors and condition variables.
(ftp://cs.washington.edu/pub/presto1.0.tar.Z). E-mail: [email protected].
[“PRESTO: A Kernel for Parallel Programming Environments”, B.N. Bershad et al, U Wash CS TR, Jan 1987].
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