Compiling Away the Meta-Level in Object-Oriented Concurrent Reflective Languages Using Partial Evaluation (1995) [37 citations — 15 self]
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Masuhara95compilingaway,author = {Hidehiko Masuhara and Satoshi Matsuoka and Kenichi Asai and Akinori Yonezawa},
title = {Compiling Away the Meta-Level in Object-Oriented Concurrent Reflective Languages Using Partial Evaluation},
booktitle = {In Proceedings of OOPSLA'95 (SIGPLAN Notices Vol.30, No.10},
year = {1995},
pages = {300--315}
}
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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 meta-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-/postprocessing, 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) meta-level optimizations in a parallel application, running on a Fujitsu MPP AP1000, exhibits only small overhead compared to the hand-crafted source-level optimization in a non-reflective language. 1
