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

[Krystal Mo]

So do I.

Thanks,
Kris

On 2013/2/19 13:55, Remi Forax wrote:
> On 02/19/2013 03:51 PM, Attila Szegedi wrote:
>> Sure, I'd be interested in reading this.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>     Attila.
> So am I.
>
> Rémi
>
>> 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.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Eric Bodden, Ph.D., http://sse.ec-spride.de/ http://bodden.de/
>>> Head of Secure Software Engineering Group at EC SPRIDE
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