Contents

• Contents
• Introduction
• Background
  • Terminology
    • Flavors
    • Dreams
  • Considerations for Real-Time
• The Dreams System
  • An Example
    • Instance Variables
    • Classes
    • Overloading
    • Multiple Inheritance
    • Regression
    • Early Binding
    • Visions
    • Reality
  • Dynamic Binding
  • An Implementation
    • Direct Threading
  • Other Threading Techniques
    • Indirect Threading
    • Trampolines
    • Repackaging
  • Multitasking
    • Token Threading
    • Subroutine Threading
  • Hardware Assistance
• Future Research
  • Metaphorical Extensions
    • Dynamic Reslotting
    • Information Hiding
  • Control Delimiters
    • Debugging
    • Rewinding Execution
    • Dreams and Tree-Stacks
  • Input and Output
    • Message I/O
    • Object I/O
    • Migrant Workers
    • MIMD Paralellism
• Summary
  • Acknowledgements
  • Availability
• Bibliography
• Glossary
• Advertised Interface
• Demonstration
• Dreams.4th
• Ans.4th
• Edo.4th
• Macros.4th
• Stacks.4th
• Util.4th
• Index