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USC: A Universal Stub Compiler (1994)
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| Venue: | in Proceedings of the Symposium on Communications Architectures and Protocols (SIGCOMM |
| Citations: | 64 - 3 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{O'Malley94usc:a,
author = {Sean O'Malley and Todd Proebsting and Allen Brady Montz},
title = {USC: A Universal Stub Compiler},
booktitle = {in Proceedings of the Symposium on Communications Architectures and Protocols (SIGCOMM},
year = {1994},
pages = {295--306}
}
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Abstract
USC is a new stub compiler that generates stubs that perform many data conversion operations. USC is flexible and can be used in situations where previously only manual code generation was possible. USC generated code is up to 20 times faster than code generated by traditional argument marshaling schemes such as ASN.1 and Sun XDR. This paper presents the design of USC and a comprehensive set of experiments that compares USC performance with the best manually generated code and traditional stub compilers. 1 Introduction Operating systems in general and network sub-systems in particular are riddled with code that converts data from one format to another. This process is commonly called "marshaling." We have identified three common types of marshaling code: IPC argument marshaling, protocol header marshaling, and device marshaling. IPC argument marshaling involves converting IPC arguments from the sender's local format to the receiver's local format. Protocol header marshaling involves c...
Keyphrases
universal stub compiler ipc argument local format new stub compiler device marshaling traditional argument comprehensive set traditional stub compiler manual code generation protocol header protocol header marshaling sun xdr network sub-systems ipc argument marshaling many data conversion operation common type usc performance
