I'd certainly be interested in having a read of it. On 19/02/2013 13:37, "Eric Bodden" <eric.bod...@ec-spride.de> wrote:
>Hi all. > >Kamil Erhard, a student of mine, and myself have prepared a paper >draft on a novel framework for invokedynamic dispatch that we call >DynaMate. The framework is meant to aid language developers in using >java.lang.invoke more easily by automatically taking care of common >concerns like guarding and caching of method handles or adapting >arguments between callers and callees. > >By March 28th, we plan to submit the draft to OOPSLA, at which point >we will probably also make the publication available as a Technical >Report, and will also open-source the implementation. Right now, I >would like to use this email to reach out to experts in the community >to get some feedback on this work, both in terms of what could be >improved w.r.t. the paper and in terms of the DynaMate framework >itself. > >So please let me know if you are interested in obtaining a copy of the >draft to then provide us with feedback. In this case I would email you >the PDF some time this week. > >Best wishes, >Eric > >P.S. Here is the current abstract: > >Version 7 of the Java runtime includes a novel invokedynamic bytecode >and API, which allow the implementers of programming languages >targeting the Java Virtual Machine to customize the dispatch semantics >at every invokedynamic call site. This mechanism is quite powerful and >eases the implementation of dynamic languages, but is is also hard to >handle, as it allows for many degrees of freedom and much room for >error. While implementers of some dynamic languages have successfully >switched to using invokedynamic, others are struggling with the steep >learning curve. >We present DYNAMATE, a novel framework allowing dynamic-language >implementers to define dispatch patterns more easily. Implementations >using DYNAMATE achieve reduced complexity, improved maintainability, >and optimized performance. Moreover, future improvements to DYNAMATE >can benefit all its clients. >As we show, it is easy to modify the implementations of Groovy, JCop, >JRuby, Jython to base their dynamic dispatch on DYNAMATE. A set of >representative benchmarks shows that DYNAMATE-enabled dispatch code >usually achieves equal or better performance compared to the code that >those implementations shipped with originally. DYNAMATE is available >as an open-source project. > >-- >Eric Bodden, Ph.D., http://sse.ec-spride.de/ http://bodden.de/ >Head of Secure Software Engineering Group at EC SPRIDE >Tel: +49 6151 16-75422 Fax: +49 6151 16-72051 >Room 3.2.14, Mornewegstr. 30, 64293 Darmstadt >_______________________________________________ >mlvm-dev mailing list >mlvm-dev@openjdk.java.net >http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/mlvm-dev _______________________________________________ mlvm-dev mailing list mlvm-dev@openjdk.java.net http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/mlvm-dev
