Optimizing dynamic dispatch with fine-grained state tracking

Dynamic mixin is a construct available in Ruby and other dynamic languages. It can be used as a base to implement a range of programming paradigms, such as dynamic aspectoriented programming and context-oriented programming. However, the performance characteristics of current implementation of dynamic mixin in Ruby leaves much to be desired: under condition of frequent dynamic mixin operations, global method cache and inline cache misses incur significant overhead. In this work we implemented fine-grained

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: DLS
• Authors: Salikh Zakirov, Shigeru Chiba, Etsuya Shibayama
• Keywords: DLS 2010, Dynamic Languages, Dynamic Mixin, Frequent Dynamic Mixin, Languages