Zero-overhead metaprogramming: reflection and metaobject protocols fast and without compromises
- Submitting institution
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The University of Kent
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 10500
- Type
- E - Conference contribution
- DOI
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10.1145/2737924.2737963
- Title of conference / published proceedings
- Proceedings of the 36th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation - PLDI 2015
- First page
- 545
- Volume
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- Issue
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- ISSN
- 0362-1340
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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https://kar.kent.ac.uk/63826/
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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- Citation count
- 8
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This paper is significant because it solves the long-standing problem of performance overhead of run-time metaprogramming and reflection. Now, for the first time, reflective programs can reach the same performance as non-reflective ones. The technique has been adopted in Oracle's Ruby and JavaScript implementations to improve performance and Google's JavaScript uses it for JavaScript proxies.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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