presto

adj : (of tempo) very fast

adv 1: suddenly; "Presto! begone! 'tis here again"- Swift

2: (music) at a very fast tempo (faster than allegro)

PRESTO

A parallel language for shared-memory multiprocessors, built

on top of C:: by Bershad et al, U Washington 1987. PRESTO

provides {class}es for {thread}s and {spinlock}s as well as

{Mesa}-style {monitor}s and {condition variable}s.

{(ftp://cs.washington.edu/pub/presto1.0.tar.Z)}. E-mail:

.

["PRESTO: A Kernel for Parallel Programming Environments",

B.N. Bershad et al, U Wash CS TR, Jan 1987].