Utting, MarkWeng, Min-HsienCleary, John G.2013-04-222013-04-2220132013Utting, M., Weng, M.-H., & Cleary, J. G. (2013). The JStar language philosophy. In Proceedings of the 2013 International Workshop on Programming Models and Applications for Multicores and Manycores - PMAM 2013. Shenzhen, Guangdong; China, 23 February 2013, (pp. 31-41). Shenzhen, Guangdong; China: ACM.9781450319089https://hdl.handle.net/10289/7501This paper introduces the JStar parallel programming language, which is a Java-based declarative language aimed at discouraging sequential programming, encouraging massively parallel programming, and giving the compiler and runtime maximum freedom to try alternative parallelisation strategies. We describe the execution semantics and runtime support of the language, several optimisations and parallelism strategies, with some initial benchmark results.enarchitecture independencedatalogJavaJStarLinda-like languagesparallel programming modelsparallel-programming languageperformance optimisationConference Contribution10.1145/2442992.2442996