An object storage model for the Truffle language implementation framework

Andreas Wöß; Christian Wirth; Daniele Bonetta; Chris Seaton; Christian Humer; Hanspeter Mössenböck

doi:10.1145/2647508.2647517

An object storage model for the Truffle language implementation framework

Andreas Wöß
, Christian Wirth
, Daniele Bonetta
, Chris Seaton
, Christian Humer
, Hanspeter Mössenböck

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Truffle is a Java-based framework for developing high-performance language runtimes. Language implementers aiming at developing new runtimes have to design all the runtime mechanisms for managing dynamically typed objects from scratch. This not only leads to potential code duplication, but also impacts the actual time needed to develop a fully-fledged runtime. In this paper we address this issue by introducing a common object storage model (OSM) for Truffle that can be used by language implementers to develop new runtimes. The OSM is generic, language-agnostic, and portable, as it can be used to implement a great variety of dynamic languages. It is extensible, featuring built-in support for custom extension mechanisms. It is also highperformance, as it is designed to benefit from the optimizing compiler in the Truffle framework. Our initial evaluation indicates that the Truffle OSM can be used to implement high-performance language runtimes, with no performance overhead when compared to language-specific solutions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	7th International Workshop on Network on Chip Architectures - In Conjunction with the 47th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, MICRO-47
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	133-144
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450330640
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2647508.2647517
Publication status	Published - 13 Dec 2014
Externally published	Yes
Event	PPPJ '14: Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Principles and Practices of Programming on the Java platform: Virtual machines, Languages, and Tools - Cambridge, United Kingdom Duration: 13 Dec 2014 → …

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Conference	PPPJ '14: Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Principles and Practices of Programming on the Java platform: Virtual machines, Languages, and Tools
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Cambridge
Period	13/12/14 → …

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Wöß, A., Wirth, C., Bonetta, D., Seaton, C., Humer, C., & Mössenböck, H. (2014). An object storage model for the Truffle language implementation framework. In 7th International Workshop on Network on Chip Architectures - In Conjunction with the 47th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, MICRO-47 (pp. 133-144). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2647508.2647517

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Wöß, A, Wirth, C, Bonetta, D, Seaton, C, Humer, C & Mössenböck, H 2014, An object storage model for the Truffle language implementation framework. in 7th International Workshop on Network on Chip Architectures - In Conjunction with the 47th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, MICRO-47. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 133-144, PPPJ '14: Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Principles and Practices of Programming on the Java platform: Virtual machines, Languages, and Tools, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 13/12/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2647508.2647517

An object storage model for the Truffle language implementation framework. / Wöß, Andreas; Wirth, Christian; Bonetta, Daniele et al.
7th International Workshop on Network on Chip Architectures - In Conjunction with the 47th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, MICRO-47. Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. p. 133-144.

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Wöß A, Wirth C, Bonetta D, Seaton C, Humer C, Mössenböck H. An object storage model for the Truffle language implementation framework. In 7th International Workshop on Network on Chip Architectures - In Conjunction with the 47th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, MICRO-47. Association for Computing Machinery. 2014. p. 133-144 doi: 10.1145/2647508.2647517

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