Automatic program specialization for Java Export

@article{citeulike:239039, abstract = {The object-oriented style of programming facilitates program adaptation and enhances program genericness, but at the expense of efficiency. We demonstrate experimentally that state-of-the-art Java compilers fail to compensate for the use of object-oriented abstractions in the implementation of generic programs, and that program specialization can eliminate a significant portion of these overheads. We present an automatic program specializer for Java, illustrate its use through detailed case studies, and demonstrate experimentally that it can significantly reduce program execution time. Although automatic program specialization could be seen as being subsumed by existing optimizing compiler technology, we show that specialization and compiler optimization are in fact complementary.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Schultz, Ulrik P. and Lawall, Julia L. and Consel, Charles}, citeulike-article-id = {239039}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=778561}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/778559.778561}, comment = {describes impl of JSpec}, doi = {10.1145/778559.778561}, issn = {0164-0925}, journal = {ACM Trans. Program. Lang. Syst.}, keywords = {off-line, partial-evaluation}, month = {July}, number = {4}, pages = {452--499}, posted-at = {2006-03-30 09:00:58}, priority = {0}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Automatic program specialization for Java}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/778559.778561}, volume = {25}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:239039 L3 - citeulike-article-id:239039 N2 - The object-oriented style of programming facilitates program adaptation and enhances program genericness, but at the expense of efficiency. We demonstrate experimentally that state-of-the-art Java compilers fail to compensate for the use of object-oriented abstractions in the implementation of generic programs, and that program specialization can eliminate a significant portion of these overheads. We present an automatic program specializer for Java, illustrate its use through detailed case studies, and demonstrate experimentally that it can significantly reduce program execution time. Although automatic program specialization could be seen as being subsumed by existing optimizing compiler technology, we show that specialization and compiler optimization are in fact complementary. IS - 4 JF - ACM Trans. Program. Lang. Syst. SN - 0164-0925 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 499 TI - Automatic program specialization for Java PB - ACM VL - 25 SP - 452 KW - off-line KW - partial-evaluation N1 - describes impl of JSpec AU - Schultz, Ulrik AU - Lawall, Julia AU - Consel, Charles PY - 2003/07// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/778559.778561 ER -