Optimizing object-oriented languages through architectural transformations

Abstract

Certain features of the object-oriented paradigm are a serious impediment for the runtime performance of object-oriented programs. Although compiler techniques to alleviate this problem were developed over the years, we will present some real-world examples which show that these solutions fall short in making any significant optimizations to systems that are required to be very flexible and highly reusable. As a solution, we propose a radically different approach: using an open compiler to”compile away” whole designs by performing architectural transformations based on programmer annotations. We will discuss this approach in detail and show why it is more suited to solve the efficiency problems inherently associated with object-oriented programming.