The Octopus Model and its Implementation

AM Farkas; Alan Dearle

The Octopus Model and its Implementation

AM Farkas
, Alan Dearle

School of Computer Science

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Abstract

The paper describes a new reflective language mechanism and its implementation. The mechanism called Octopus is designed to support a wide variety of database programming and software engineering applications which previously required much heavier weight mechanisms, such as the use of a compiler at run-time, or unsafe language mechanisms. The implementation of this mechanism requires structured type representations to be available for manipulation at run-time and architecture support for boxed values. These implementation techniques are described and the cost of these mechanisms is examined.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 17th Australasian Computer Science Conference
Place of Publication	Christchurch, New Zealand
Publisher	Australian Computer Science Communications
Pages	581-590
Publication status	Published - 1994

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