The Design and Implementation of the SELF Compiler, an Optimizing Compiler for Object-Oriented Programming Languages

The Design and Implementation of the SELF Compiler, an Optimizing Compiler for Object-Oriented Programming Languages (1992)

by Craig Chambers , John Hennessy , Mark Linton

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TITLE	The Design and Implementation of the SELF Compiler, an Optimizing Compiler for Object-Oriented Programming Languages	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR NAME	Craig Chambers	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR ADDR	Copyright by Craig Chambers 1992	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR NAME	John Hennessy	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR NAME	Mark Linton	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
ABSTRACT	Object-oriented programming languages promise to improve programmer productivity by supporting abstract data types, inheritance, and message passing directly within the language. Unfortunately, traditional implementations of object-oriented language features, particularly message passing, have been much slower than traditional implementations of their non-object-oriented counterparts: the fastest existing implementation of Smalltalk-80 runs at only a tenth the speed of an optimizing C implementation. The dearth of suitable implementation technology has forced most object-oriented languages to be designed as hybrids with traditional non-object-oriented languages, complicating the languages and making programs harder to extend and reuse. This dissertation describes a collection of implementation techniques that can improve the run-time performance of object-oriented languages, in hopes of reducing the need for hybrid languages and encouraging wider spread of purely object-oriented langu...	user correction - Legacy Corrections
YEAR	1992	INFERENCE
VENUE TYPE	TECHREPORT	INFERENCE
TECH	PhD thesis	INFERENCE
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