CS 242 Final Project

Comparing Producer-Consumer Implementations in Go, Rust, and C

Authors

• Gabbi Fisher
• Christopher Yeh

Stanford CS 242: Programming Languages

• Instructor: Will Crichton
• Autumn, 2017-18

Getting Started

We assume this is running on macOS or Linux, and that gcc is already installed.

• Install Rust (v1.20.0) - link
• Install Go (v1.9.2) - link
• Install libmill (v1.18) - link

To run the benchmark: bash ./bench.sh

Running individual implementations

All of the executables support the following flags:

• -h: print the help menu and exit
• -b BUF_SIZE: buffer size in number of integers (default=100)
• -p NUM_PRODUCERS: number of producer threads (default=5)
• -c NUM_CONSUMERS: number of consumer threads (default=5)
• -e ELEMS_PER_PRODUCER: number of elements each producer adds to buffer (default=100)
• -i: have producer threads sleep for 1ms before adding int to buffer
• -j: have consumer threads sleep for 1ms after reading int from buffer

Other

NOTE: the C-protothreads implementation is experimental and not completely functional yet.