[abc] more users?

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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:35:52 -0400
From: Karl Lieberherr <lieber@ccs.neu.edu>
To: Oege de Moor <Oege.de.Moor@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: abc

Dear Oege:

Thank you for your note about abc. A couple of my students
are looking at your compiler and they talk about
switching to it. No bug reports so far but they are still working on it.

We have been working on compilation algorithms and complexity
for AOP. I think that some of the results in:

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/research/demeter/papers/unified/unified.pdf

might be useful to compiler writers. Please take a look.

Greetings,
-- Karl

>-----Original Message-----
>From: oege@mercury.comlab.ox.ac.uk
>[mailto:oege@mercury.comlab.ox.ac.uk]On Behalf Of Oege de Moor
>Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 11:06 AM
>To: lieber@ccs.neu.edu
>Subject: abc
>
>
>Dear Karl,
>
>A while ago I told you about the new AspectJ compiler that
>my research team is building, in collaboration with the Sable
>research group at McGill. It is intended as a workbench for
>research into aspect-oriented programming languages, and it
>is named the "AspectBench Compiler", or "abc" for short.
>
>We have now reached the stage where abc is more or less complete.
>The main item that is missing is good documentation for
>users who want to add their own features and optimisations.
>We hope to produce such documentation over the next few weeks.
>Early results are encouraging - when your "law of demeter"
>program is compiled with abc, it runs 46 times faster compared
>to ajc...
>
>At this stage it would be tremendously helpful to us if a few
>professional friends could try abc on their own AspectJ programs,
>and report potential problems on our bugzilla database. A
>pre-release of the compiler is available at
>
>http://abc.comlab.ox.ac.uk
>
>You will also find related links on that website, for instance to
>subscribe to abc-related mailing lists.
>
>Might you (or some of your coworkers) be interested in trying out abc?
>As this is a pre-release, we request you that you don't pass on the url
>beyond your own team without telling us first. We expect to do a proper
>public release by mid-October at the latest.
>
>We very much hope that you will find abc of interest. Do let us
>know of any suggestions you may have for its improvement!
>
>With best wishes,
>
>-Oege
>
>
Received on Thu Sep 30 09:05:16 2004