Looking for comments on paper draft "DynaMate: Simplified and optimized invokedynamic dispatch"

[Attila Szegedi]

Sure, I'd be interested in reading this.

Thanks,
  Attila.

On Feb 19, 2013, at 2:37 PM, Eric Bodden <eric.bodden at ec-spride.de> wrote:

> Hi all.
> 
> Kamil Erhard, a student of mine, and myself have prepared a paper
> draft on a novel framework for invokedynamic dispatch that we call
> DynaMate. The framework is meant to aid language developers in using
> java.lang.invoke more easily by automatically taking care of common
> concerns like guarding and caching of method handles or adapting
> arguments between callers and callees.
> 
> By March 28th, we plan to submit the draft to OOPSLA, at which point
> we will probably also make the publication available as a Technical
> Report, and will also open-source the implementation. Right now, I
> would like to use this email to reach out to experts in the community
> to get some feedback on this work, both in terms of what could be
> improved w.r.t. the paper and in terms of the DynaMate framework
> itself.
> 
> So please let me know if you are interested in obtaining a copy of the
> draft to then provide us with feedback. In this case I would email you
> the PDF some time this week.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Eric
> 
> P.S. Here is the current abstract:
> 
> Version 7 of the Java runtime includes a novel invokedynamic bytecode
> and API, which allow the implementers of programming languages
> targeting the Java Virtual Machine to customize the dispatch semantics
> at every invokedynamic call site. This mechanism is quite powerful and
> eases the implementation of dynamic languages, but is is also hard to
> handle, as it allows for many degrees of freedom and much room for
> error. While implementers of some dynamic languages have successfully
> switched to using invokedynamic, others are struggling with the steep
> learning curve.
> We present DYNAMATE, a novel framework allowing dynamic-language
> implementers to define dispatch patterns more easily. Implementations
> using DYNAMATE achieve reduced complexity, improved maintainability,
> and optimized performance. Moreover, future improvements to DYNAMATE
> can benefit all its clients.
> As we show, it is easy to modify the implementations of Groovy, JCop,
> JRuby, Jython to base their dynamic dispatch on DYNAMATE. A set of
> representative benchmarks shows that DYNAMATE-enabled dispatch code
> usually achieves equal or better performance compared to the code that
> those implementations shipped with originally. DYNAMATE is available
> as an open-source project.
> 
> -- 
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