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Extending the SSCLI to Support Dynamic Inheritance

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Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2008)

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This paper presents a step forward on a research trend focused on increasing runtime adaptability of commercial JIT-based virtual machines, describing how to include dynamic inheritance into this kind of platforms. A considerable amount of research aimed at improving runtime performance of virtual machines has converted them into the ideal support for developing different types of software products. Current virtual machines do not only provide benefits such as application interoperability, distribution and code portability, but they also offer a competitive runtime performance.

Since JIT compilation has played a very important role in improving runtime performance of virtual machines, we first extended a production JIT-based virtual machine to support efficient language-neutral structural reflective primitives of dynamically typed programming languages. This article presents the next step in our research work: supporting language-neutral dynamic inheritance for both statically and dynamically typed programming languages. Executing both kinds of programming languages over the same platform provides a direct interoperation between them.

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of Oviedo, Calvo Sotelo s/n, 33007, Oviedo, Spain

    Jose Manuel Redondo & Francisco Ortin

  2. Computer Science Department, University of Vigo, As Lagoas s/n, 32004, Ourense, Spain

    J. Baltasar Garcia Perez-Schofield

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  1. Control and Communication (INSTICC), Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information,, Rua do Vale de Chaves, Estefanilha, 2910-761, Setúbal, Portugal

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  2. Interdisciplinary Institute for Collaboration and Research on Enterprise Systems and Technology – IICREST, P.O. Box 104, 1618, Sofia, Bulgaria

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  4. School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland

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Redondo, J.M., Ortin, F., Perez-Schofield, J.B.G. (2009). Extending the SSCLI to Support Dynamic Inheritance. In: Cordeiro, J., Shishkov, B., Ranchordas, A., Helfert, M. (eds) Software and Data Technologies. ICSOFT 2008. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 47. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05201-9_2

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