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As applications for small embedded mobile devices are getting larger and more complex, it becomes inevitable to adopt more advanced software engineering methods from the field of desktop application development. Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is a promising approach due to its advanced modularization capabilities. However, existing AOP languages tend to add a substantial overhead in both execution time and code size which restricts their practicality for small devices with limited resources. In this paper, we present optimizations for aspect-oriented mechanisms at the level of the virtual machine. Our experiments show that these optimizations yield a considerable performance gain along with a reduction of the code size. Thus, our optimizations establish the base for using advanced aspect-oriented modularization techniques for developing Java applications on small embedded devices.
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Hundt, C., Stöhr, D., Glesner, S. (2010). Optimizing Aspect-Oriented Mechanisms for Embedded Applications. In: Vitek, J. (eds) Objects, Models, Components, Patterns. TOOLS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6141. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13953-6_8
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