Nu: preserving design modularity in object code

By: Robert Dyer, Harish Narayanappa, and Hridesh Rajan

Abstract

For a number of reasons, such as to generate object code that is compliant with the existing virtual machines (VM), current compilers for aspect-oriented languages sacrifice design modularity when transforming source to object code by losing textual locality and intermingling concerns in the object code. Sacrificing design modularity has significant costs, especially in terms of the speed of incremental compilation. We present an intermediate language design that preserves aspect-oriented design modularity in Java byte code. We briefly describe our extensions to the Sun Hotspot VM to support the new intermediate language design.

ACM Reference

Dyer, R. et al. 2006. Nu: preserving design modularity in object code. ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes. 31, 6 (2006), 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218802.

BibTeX Reference

@article{DyerNarayanappaRajan2006,
  author = {Robert Dyer and Harish Narayanappa and Hridesh Rajan},
  title = {Nu: preserving design modularity in object code},
  journal = {{ACM} {SIGSOFT} Softw. Eng. Notes},
  volume = {31},
  number = {6},
  pages = {1--2},
  year = {2006},
  doi = {10.1145/1218776.1218802},
  abstract = {
  For a number of reasons, such as to generate object code that is compliant
  with the existing virtual machines (VM), current compilers for aspect-oriented
  languages sacrifice design modularity when transforming source to object code
  by losing textual locality and intermingling concerns in the object code.
  Sacrificing design modularity has significant costs, especially in terms of
  the speed of incremental compilation. We present an intermediate language
  design that preserves aspect-oriented design modularity in Java byte code. We
  briefly describe our extensions to the Sun Hotspot VM to support the new
  intermediate language design.},
}