Re: [abc-dev] load-time weaving

From: Oege de Moor <Oege.de.Moor@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Tue May 31 2005 - 13:59:50 BST

> I want to weave normal Java classes and aspects that are
> compiled by Abc at load-time. However, it seems that current
> Abc does not support the mechanism for load-time weaving.
> It is true?

That is correct.

> If it is actually true,
> are you planning to extend to Abc for load-time weaving?

Perhaps in the longer term, but not anytime soon.

Load-time weaving has to be very efficient; and compile-time
efficiency doesn't sit well with the other design goals of
abc (extensibility and optimisation).

-Oege
Received on Tue May 31 13:59:53 2005

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