Virtual machines and intermediate languages for emerging modularization mechanisms

Authors:
Hridesh Rajan;Michael Haupt;Christoph Bockisch;Robert Dyer
Affiliations:
Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA;Hasso-Plattner-Institut, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany;Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany;Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
Venue:
Companion to the 23rd ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems languages and applications
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Modern programming languages are compiled to intermediate code preserving the intention of high-level language constructs. Emerging modularization mechanisms, however, lack such handling. Recent research results have shown that deeper support for these modularization mechanisms, e.g., in virtual machines and intermediate languages, is feasible; it allows applying tailored optimizations and radically improves development processes such as incremental compilation, debugging, etc. The VMIL workshop, second in the series, is a forum for research in virtual machines and intermediate languages with support for emerging modularization mechanisms such as mix-ins, units, open classes, hyper-slices, adaptive methods, roles, composition filters, layers, pointcuts-and-advice, and inter-type declarations. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: compilation-based and interpreter-based virtual machines as well as intermediate language designs with dedicated support for emerging modularization mechanisms, compilation techniques, optimization strategies, improved techniques for fast predicate evaluation (e.g., of pointcuts) inside virtual machines, and advanced caching and memory management schemes.