Adaptive Parameter Passing (1996)
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| Venue: | In 2nd International Symposium on Object Technologies for Advanced Software |
| Citations: | 22 - 6 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Lopes96adaptiveparameter,
author = {Cristina Videira Lopes},
title = {Adaptive Parameter Passing},
booktitle = {In 2nd International Symposium on Object Technologies for Advanced Software},
year = {1996},
pages = {118--136},
publisher = {Springer-Verlag}
}
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Abstract
Parameter passing is one of the main problems in distributed object-oriented applications. The two simplest solutions - passing objects by global reference and passing complete copies of the object graphs - both have significant drawbacks. Instead, an intermediate amount of copying is often best. The problem is twofold: (i) compilers and operating systems can't automatically make the best decision on how much to copy; (ii) there hasn't been a good mechanism for the programmer to express the intermediate amount of copying that should be done. The contribution of this paper is to present a new mechanism that allows programmers to express in a natural and succinct way how much of the object graph should be copied to the remote context. The specifications are done using a very simple declarative meta-language -- GOOP -- that has graphs of classes as domain. Keywords: distribution, remote invocation, pass-by-copy, open implementation, adaptiveness. Supported by the Portuguese Fo...
