Smalltalk-80: bits of history, words of advice
Smalltalk-80: bits of history, words of advice
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The design and evaluation of a high performance Smalltalk system
The design and evaluation of a high performance Smalltalk system
Making pure object-oriented languages practical
OOPSLA '91 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
Debugging optimized code with dynamic deoptimization
PLDI '92 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1992 conference on Programming language design and implementation
A third-generation SELF implementation: reconciling responsiveness with performance
OOPSLA '94 Proceedings of the ninth annual conference on Object-oriented programming systems, language, and applications
MaJIC: compiling MATLAB for speed and responsiveness
PLDI '02 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2002 Conference on Programming language design and implementation
An Introduction to Numerical Methods with MATLAB
An Introduction to Numerical Methods with MATLAB
Optimizing Dynamically-Typed Object-Oriented Languages With Polymorphic Inline Caches
ECOOP '91 Proceedings of the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Design, implementation and evaluation of adaptive recompilation with on-stack replacement
Proceedings of the international symposium on Code generation and optimization: feedback-directed and runtime optimization
Efficient implementation of the smalltalk-80 system
POPL '84 Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN symposium on Principles of programming languages
LLVM: A Compilation Framework for Lifelong Program Analysis & Transformation
Proceedings of the international symposium on Code generation and optimization: feedback-directed and runtime optimization
The java hotspotTM server compiler
JVM'01 Proceedings of the 2001 Symposium on JavaTM Virtual Machine Research and Technology Symposium - Volume 1
Optimizing MATLAB through just-in-time specialization
CC'10/ETAPS'10 Proceedings of the 19th joint European conference on Theory and Practice of Software, international conference on Compiler Construction
A modular approach to on-stack replacement in LLVM
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments
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MATLAB is a popular dynamic array-based language used by engineers, scientists and students worldwide. The built-in function feval is an important MATLAB feature for certain classes of numerical programs and solvers which benefit from having functions as parameters. Programmers may pass a function name or function handle to the solver and then the solver uses feval to indirectly call the function. In this paper, we show that there are significant performance overheads for function calls via feval, in both MATLAB interpreters and JITs. The paper then proposes, implements and compares two on-the-fly mechanisms for specialization of feval calls. The first approach uses on-stack replacement technology, as supported by McVM/McOSR. The second approach specializes calls of functions with feval using a combination of runtime input argument types and values. Experimental results on seven numerical solvers show that the techniques provide good performance improvements.