NDLI: Compiling away the meta-level in object-oriented concurrent reflective languages using partial evaluation

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Matsuoka, Satoshi Asai, Kenichi Masuhara, Hidehiko Yonezawa, Akinori
Abstract	Meta-level programmability is beneficial for parallel/distributed object-oriented computing to improve performance, etc. The major problem, however, is interpretation overhead due to mta-circular interpretation. To solve this problem, we propose a compilation framework for object-oriented concurrent reflective languages using partial evaluation. Since traditional partial evaluators do not allow us to directly deal with meta-circular interpreters written with concurrent objects, we devised techniques such as pre-/post-processing, a new proposed preaction extension to partial evaluation in order to handle side-effects, etc. Benchmarks of a prototype compiler for our language ABCL/R3 indicate that (1) the meta-level interpretation is essentially 'compiled away,' and (2) mta-level optimizations in a parallel application, running on a Fujitsu MPP AP1000, exhibits only 10--30% overhead compared to the hand-crafted source-level optimization in a non-reflective language.
Starting Page	300
Ending Page	315
Page Count	16
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0897917030
DOI	10.1145/217838.217869
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1995-10-17
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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Compiling away the meta-level in object-oriented concurrent reflective languages using partial evaluation