Although run-time language composition is common, it normally takes the form of a crude Foreign Function Interface (FFI). While useful, such compositions tend to be coarse-grained and slow. In this paper we introduce a novel fine-grained syntactic composition of PHP and Python which allows users to embed each language inside the other, including referencing variables across languages. This composition raises novel design and implementation challenges. We show that good solutions can be found to the design challenges; and that the resulting implementation imposes an acceptable performance overhead of, at most, just over 2x.
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13:30 - 15:20 | Session 8Research Track at Auditorium Loyola Chair(s): Matthias Keil University of Freiburg, Eric Jul Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs | ||
13:30 25mTalk | Composing Interfering Abstract Protocols Research Track Filipe Militão Carnegie Mellon University & Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Jonathan Aldrich Carnegie Mellon University, Luís Caires FCT / Universidade Nova de Lisboa Link to publication DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
13:55 25mTalk | Fine-grained Language Composition: A Case Study Research Track Edd Barrett King's College London, Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick King's College London , Lukas Diekmann King's College London, Laurence Tratt King's College London Link to publication DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
14:20 25mTalk | One Way to Select Many Research Track Link to publication DOI Media Attached | ||
14:45 25mTalk | Staccato: A Bug Finder for Dynamic Configuration Updates Research Track Link to publication DOI Media Attached | ||
15:10 10m | Adjourn Research Track | ||