Implementing Modular Class-based Reuse Mechanisms on Top of a Single Inheritance VM

Tesone, Pablo; Polito, Guillermo; Fabresse, Luc; Bouraqadi, Noury; Ducasse, Stephane

Document type :

Communication dans un congrès avec actes

DOI :

10.1145/3167132.3167244

Title :

Implementing Modular Class-based Reuse Mechanisms on Top of a Single Inheritance VM

Author(s) :

Tesone, Pablo [Auteur]
Centre for Digital Systems [CERI SN - IMT Nord Europe]
Analyses and Languages Constructs for Object-Oriented Application Evolution [RMOD]
Polito, Guillermo [Auteur]

Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille - UMR 9189 [CRIStAL]
Fabresse, Luc [Auteur]
Centre for Digital Systems [CERI SN - IMT Nord Europe]
Bouraqadi, Noury [Auteur]
Centre for Digital Systems [CERI SN - IMT Nord Europe]
Ducasse, Stephane [Auteur]

Analyses and Languages Constructs for Object-Oriented Application Evolution [RMOD]

Conference title :

SAC 2018:- The 33rd ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing

Conference organizers(s) :

ACM/SIGAPP

City :

Pau

Country :

France

Start date of the conference :

2018-04-09

Journal title :

SAC 2018 Symposium on Applied Computing

Publisher :

ACM New York, NY, USA

Publication date :

2018

English keyword(s) :

code reuse
composable language features
performance

HAL domain(s) :

Informatique [cs]/Langage de programmation [cs.PL]

English abstract : [en]

Code reuse is a good strategy to avoid code duplication and speed up software development. Existing object-oriented programming languages propose different ways of combining existing and new code such as e.g., single ...
Show more >Code reuse is a good strategy to avoid code duplication and speed up software development. Existing object-oriented programming languages propose different ways of combining existing and new code such as e.g., single inheritance, multiple inheritance, Traits or Mixins. All these mechanisms present advantages and disadvantages and there are situations that require the use of one over the other. To avoid the complexity of implementing a virtual machine (VM), many of these mechanisms are often implemented on top of an existing high-performance VM, originally meant to run a single inheritance object-oriented language. These implementations require thus a mapping between the programming model they propose and the execution model provided by the VM. Moreover, reuse mechanisms are not usually composable, nor it is easy to implement new ones for a given language. In this paper, we propose a modular meta-level runtime architecture to implement and combine different code reuse mechanisms. This architecture supports dynamic combination of several mechanisms without affecting runtime performance in a single inheritance object-oriented VM. It includes moreover a reflective Meta-Object Protocol to query and modify classes using the programming logical model instead of the underlying low-level runtime model. Thanks to this architecture, we implemented Stateful Traits, Mixins, CLOS multiple inheritance, CLOS Standard Method Combinations and Beta prefixing in a modular and composable way.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

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