High-performance cross-language interoperability in a multi-language runtime

Grimmer, Matthias; Seaton, Chris; Schatz, Roland; Würthinger, Thomas; Mössenböck, Hanspeter

doi:10.1145/2816707.2816714

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“…Many works have followed a 'single shared virtual machine' paradigm [8,13,19], where garbage collection is handled by a common runtime, most recently with a shared compilation infrastructure that allows fast cross-language performance. They vary in the sophistication of their language mappings; in the Truffle-based work of Grimmer et al [9] these back onto a fairly sophisticated operational metamodel, albeit remaining outside the end programmer's control.…”

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Towards seamless interfacing between dynamic languages and native code

Bertholon¹,

Kell

2019

Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages

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“…Both older and more recent work towards the elimination of FFIs has focused on 'polyglot VMs' [8,13,19], in which a shared core of compilation and run-time infrastructure hosts many languages. These are capable of impressive results, including high performance in mixed-language code.…”

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Towards seamless interfacing between dynamic languages and native code

Bertholon¹,

Kell

2019

Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages

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“…Lastly, we introduce subclasses of Smalltalk tools and appropriate tool support classes. 1 One could design a new, language-independent MOP for the tools to use and all languages to implement [32]. However, we suspect that any such attempt would simply create another, no less biased MOP.…”

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Live Multi-language Development and Runtime Environments

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Context: Software development tools should work and behave consistently across different programming languages, so that developers do not have to familiarize themselves with new tooling for new languages. Also, being able to combine multiple programming languages in a program increases reusability, as developers do not have to recreate software frameworks and libraries in the language they develop in and can reuse existing software instead. Inquiry: However, developers often have a broad choice of tools, some of which are designed for only one specific programming language. Various Integrated Development Environments have support for multiple languages, but are usually unable to provide a consistent programming experience due to different languagespecific runtime features. With regard to language integrations, common mechanisms usually use abstraction layers, such as the operating system or a network connection, which are often boundaries for tools and hence negatively affect the programming experience. Approach: In this paper, we present a novel approach for tool reuse that aims to improve the experience with regard to working with multiple high-level dynamic, object-oriented programming languages. As part of this, we build a multi-language virtual execution environment and reuse Smalltalk's live programming tools for other languages. Knowledge: An important part of our approach is to retrofit and align runtime capabilities for different languages as it is a requirement for providing consistent tools. Furthermore, it provides convenient means to reuse and even mix software libraries and frameworks written in different languages without breaking tool support. Grounding: The prototype system Squimera is an implementation of our approach and demonstrates that it is possible to reuse both development tools from a live programming system to improve the development experience as well as software artifacts from different languages to increase productivity. Importance: In the domain of polyglot programming systems, most research has focused on the integration of different languages and corresponding performance optimizations. Our work, on the other hand, focuses on tooling and the overall programming experience. ACM CCS 2012Software and its engineering → Integrated and visual development environments; Runtime environments; Software testing and debugging;

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“…The C⁄C++ code is executed by Sulong [22], an implementation of C⁄C++ on top of Trule. The native interface itself is implemented using Trule's cross-language interoperability mechanism [13,14].…”

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Applying Optimizations for Dynamically-typed Languages to Java

Grimmer¹,

Marr

Kahlhofer

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Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Managed Languages and Runtimes

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While Java is a statically-typed language, some of its features make it behave like a dynamically-typed language at run time. This includes Java's boxing of primitive values as well as generics, which rely on type erasure. This paper investigates how runtime technology for dynamically-typed languages such as JavaScript and Python can be used for Java bytecode. Using optimistic optimizations, we specialize bytecode instructions that access references in such a way, that they can handle primitive data directly and also specialize data structures in order to avoid boxing for primitive types. Our evaluation shows that these optimizations can be successfully applied to a statically-typed language such as Java and can also improve performance signiicantly. With this approach, we get an eicient implementation of Java's generics, avoid changes to the Java language, and maintain backwards compatibility, allowing existing code to beneit from our optimization transparently.

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High-performance cross-language interoperability in a multi-language runtime

Cited by 35 publications

References 28 publications

Towards seamless interfacing between dynamic languages and native code

Towards seamless interfacing between dynamic languages and native code

Live Multi-language Development and Runtime Environments

Applying Optimizations for Dynamically-typed Languages to Java

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