On 02/19/2013 03:51 PM, Attila Szegedi wrote: > Sure, I'd be interested in reading this. > > Thanks, > Attila.
So am I. Rémi > > On Feb 19, 2013, at 2:37 PM, 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 _______________________________________________ mlvm-dev mailing list mlvm-dev@openjdk.java.net http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/mlvm-dev
