A prototype Sisal compiler that supports distributed- as well as shared-memory machines has been developed to validate the Filaments concept. The compiler, fsc, modifies the code-generation phase of the optimizing Sisal compiler osc to use the Filaments library as a run-time system.

Vincent W. Freeh and Gregory R. Andrews. fsc: A Sisal Compiler for Both Distributed- and Shared-Memory Machines. In Proceedings of High-Performance Functional Computing, Denver, CO, April 9-11, 1995 (173K bytes, 68K compressed)