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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2016.3
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-60975
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2016/6097/
Barrett, Edd ;
Bolz, Carl Friedrich ;
Diekmann, Lukas ;
Tratt, Laurence
Fine-grained Language Composition: A Case Study
Abstract
Although run-time language composition is common, it normally takes the form of a crude Foreign Function Interface (FFI). While useful, such compositions tend to be coarse-grained and slow. In this paper we introduce a novel fine-grained syntactic composition of PHP and Python which allows users to embed each language inside the other, including referencing variables across languages.
This composition raises novel design and implementation challenges. We show that good solutions can be found to the design challenges; and that the resulting implementation imposes an acceptable
performance overhead of, at most, 2.6x.
BibTeX - Entry
@InProceedings{barrett_et_al:LIPIcs:2016:6097,
author = {Edd Barrett and Carl Friedrich Bolz and Lukas Diekmann and Laurence Tratt},
title = {{Fine-grained Language Composition: A Case Study}},
booktitle = {30th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2016)},
pages = {3:1--3:27},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-014-9},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2016},
volume = {56},
editor = {Shriram Krishnamurthi and Benjamin S. Lerner},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2016/6097},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-60975},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2016.3},
annote = {Keywords: JIT, tracing, language composition}
}
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JIT, tracing, language composition |
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30th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2016) |
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2016 |
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18.07.2016 |
