Tempo: specializing systems applications and beyond
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) - Special issue: electronic supplement to the September 1998 issue
Partial evaluation for software engineering
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) - Special issue: electronic supplement to the September 1998 issue
Efficient incremental run-time specialization for free
Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1999 conference on Programming language design and implementation
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Specifying and Automatically Generating a Specialization Tool for Fortran 90
Automated Software Engineering
Towards Automatic Specialization of Java Programs
ECOOP '99 Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Generative Programming and Active Libraries
Selected Papers from the International Seminar on Generic Programming
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
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Flexibility is recognized as a key feature in structuring software, and many architectures have been designed to that effect. However, they often come with performance and code size overhead, resulting in a flexibility vs. efficiency dilemma. The source of inefficiency in software architectures can be identified in the data and control integration of components, because flexibility is present not only at the design level but also in the implementation. We propose the use of program specialization in software engineering as a systematic way to improve performance and in some cases, to reduce program size. In particular, we advocate the use of partial evaluation, which is an automatic technique to produce efficient, specialized instances of generic programs. We study several representative, flexible mechanisms found in software architectures: selective broadcast, pattern matching, interpreters, layers, and generic libraries. We show how partial evaluation can systematically be applied in order to optimize those mechanisms.