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; Talk Abstract: Java provides only a restricted form of polymorphic methods, namely single-receiver dispatch. In common programming situations, developers must work around this limitation. We describe how to extend the Java Virtual Machine to support multi-method dispatch and examine the complications that Java imposes on multi-method dispatch in practice. Our technique avoids changes to the Java programming language itself, maintains source-code and library compatibility, and isolates the performance penalty and semantic changes of multi-method dispatch to the program sections which use it. We have micro-benchmark and application-level performance results for a dynamic Most Speci&#64257;c Applicable (MSA) dispatcher, a framework-based Single Receiver Projections (SRP) dispatcher, and a tuned SRP dispatcher.
  
 
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Multiple Dispatch for the Java Virtual Machine

Christopher Dutchyn

Project
University of Saskatchewan

Abstract

Talk Abstract
Java provides only a restricted form of polymorphic methods, namely single-receiver dispatch. In common programming situations, developers must work around this limitation. We describe how to extend the Java Virtual Machine to support multi-method dispatch and examine the complications that Java imposes on multi-method dispatch in practice. Our technique avoids changes to the Java programming language itself, maintains source-code and library compatibility, and isolates the performance penalty and semantic changes of multi-method dispatch to the program sections which use it. We have micro-benchmark and application-level performance results for a dynamic Most Specific Applicable (MSA) dispatcher, a framework-based Single Receiver Projections (SRP) dispatcher, and a tuned SRP dispatcher.

http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/pdf/17_Dutchyn_mdj.pdf

Author Bio

  • <update the bio here>

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