Accelerating Object-Oriented Simulation via Automatic Program Specialization (1992)
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@TECHREPORT{Weise92acceleratingobject-oriented,
author = {Daniel Weise and Scott Seligman},
title = {Accelerating Object-Oriented Simulation via Automatic Program Specialization},
institution = {},
year = {1992}
}
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Abstract
Object-oriented simulations in an object-oriented environment are easier to construct and maintain than conventionally programmed simulations. Unfortunately, they are also slower because of message passing and other runtime overhead. We have developed an automatic program transformer that solves the efficiency problem for a large class of simulation programs. It automatically constructs an efficient program from the inefficient simulation program and the objects it will receive as input. Depending on the object-oriented language used, and the application, the new program can be more than an order of magnitude faster than the original program. In this paper we describe the benefits of object-oriented simulation, our transformer, and how such dramatic speedups are possible. This research has been supported in part by NSF Contract No. MIP-8902764, and in part by Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department of Defense, Contract No. N0039-91-K-0138. Key Words and Phrases: Object-Oriented S...
