Implementation and Comparison of Programming Tools for Persistent Memory

• Henrique Guirelli UFABC
• Emilio Francesquini UFABC
• Alexandro Baldassin UNESP

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/eradsp.2021.16705

Abstract

This article covers the development and comparative analysis of the programming interface of two libraries. The fstream library widely used in C ++ and PMDK, a library created by Intel to facilitate the development of systems using persistent memory and files mapped in memory. The use of fstream was simple, the library was used to serialize the data in binary format. In contrast, development with the PMDK required more effort. The development was affected by the lack of support for complex types such as strings, which required the creation of an intermediate layer. In this article we report the experience of using these tools and highlight the difficulties encountered.

Keywords: Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Parallel and Distributed Computing, Low Level Software for Parallel and Distributed Computing, Fault Tolerance

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