Eric, Thanks for working on this topic with your student. I would be interested in reviewing your work with respect to applicability to Jython.
- Jim On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Mark Roos <mr...@roos.com> wrote: > I would be interested as well > > mark > > > > > From: Eric Bodden <eric.bod...@ec-spride.de> > To: Da Vinci Machine Project <mlvm-dev@openjdk.java.net> > Date: 02/19/2013 05:39 AM > Subject: Looking for comments on paper draft "DynaMate: Simplified > and optimized invokedynamic dispatch" > Sent by: mlvm-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net > ------------------------------ > > > > 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 > >
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