Paper Info
Title
Improving the Performance of the Paisley Pattern-Matching EDSL by Staged Combinatorial Compilation
Abstract
Paisley is a declarative lightweight embedded domain-specific language for expressive, non-deterministic, non-invasive pattern matching on arbitrary data structures in Java applications. As such, it comes as a pure Java library of pattern-matching combinators and corresponding programming idioms. While the combinators support a basic form of self-optimization based on heuristic metadata, overall performance is limited by the distributed and compositional implementation that impedes non-local code optimization. In this paper, we describe a technique for improving the performance of Paisley transparently, without compromising the flexible and extensible combinatorial design. By means of distributed bytecode generation, dynamic class loading and just-in-time compilation of patterns, the run-time overhead of the combinatorial approach can be reduced significantly, without requiring any technology other than a standard Java virtual machine and our LLJava bytecode framework. We evaluate the impact by comparison to earlier benchmarking results on interpreted Paisley. The key ideas of our compilation technique are fairly general, and apply in principle to any kind of combinator language running on any jit-compiling host.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/978-3-030-46714-2_17
DECLARE
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Baltasar Trancón y Widemann1339.61
Markus Lepper26111.30