Abstract

This article presents the design principles and efficient implementation techniques for ABCL/R3, an object-oriented concurrent reflective language. One of the most distinguished features of ABCL/R3 is compilation techniques using partial evaluation, which effectively remove interpretation from meta-level programs. The meta-level objects are designed so that they can be partially evaluated in an effective manner. Benchmark programs show that our compilation frameworks make object execution drastically faster than interpreter-based implementations, and achieves performance close to nonreflective compilers.

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