Reconciling responsiveness with performance in pure object-oriented languages

Reconciling responsiveness with performance in pure object-oriented languages (1996)

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by Urs Hölzle , David Ungar

Venue:	ACM TRANSACTIONS ON PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND SYSTEMS
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TITLE	Reconciling responsiveness with performance in pure object-oriented languages	INFERENCE
AUTHOR NAME	Urs Hölzle	user correction
AUTHOR AFFIL	University of California, Santa Barbara; and	user correction
AUTHOR NAME	David Ungar	user correction
AUTHOR AFFIL	; Sun Microsystems Laboratories; Categories and Subject Descriptors: D.1.5 [Programming Languages]: Object-oriented	user correction
ABSTRACT	Dynamically-dispatched calls often limit the performance of object-oriented programs since object-oriented programming encourages factoring code into small, reusable units, thereby increasing the frequency of these expensive operations. Frequent calls not only slow down execution with the dispatch overhead per se, but more importantly they hinder optimization by limiting the range and effectiveness of standard global optimizations. In particular, dynamicallydispatched calls prevent standard interprocedural optimizations that depend on the availability of a static call graph. The SELF implementation described here offers two novel approaches to optimization. Type feedback speculatively inlines dynamically-dispatched calls based on profile information that predicts likely receiver classes. Adaptive optimization reconciles optimizing compilation with interactive performance by incrementally optimizing only the frequently-executed parts of a program. When combined, these two techniques result in a system that can execute programs significantly faster than previous systems while retaining much of the interactiveness of an interpreted system.	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
YEAR	1996	INFERENCE
VENUE	ACM TRANSACTIONS ON PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND SYSTEMS	user correction
VENUE TYPE	JOURNAL	INFERENCE
PAGES	355--400	INFERENCE
VOLUME	18	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	46 found	ParsCit 1.0