RE: [abc] PLDI paper -99 cflow and steamloom

It seems a weak paper overall.

I'm somewhat suspicious of the choice of benchmarks. Why haven't
they used at least some of ours? They can be downloaded...

Indeed if it were accepted, it's essential that they distinguish
between different kinds of optimisations performed by abc.

Of course I'd also love to see more AspectJ work at PLDI that
makes positive reference to abc, but I'd be surprised if this
was judged up to the usual PLDI standards.

-O

> -----Original Message-----
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> Of Professor Laurie Hendren
> Sent: 07 January 2006 15:43
> To: abc@comlab.ox.ac.uk
> Subject: [abc] PLDI paper -99 cflow and steamloom
>
> I have been reviewing paper 99 for PLDI, which is on the topic
> of how the steamloom guys implemented cflow in their VM. This
> is the only "aspectjy" paper that seems to have any chance.
> However, there are certain problems with the paper. At least
> I would like to at least clarify the discussion of abc in this
> paper, even if it gets rejected - assuming that this paper will
> find a home somewhere.
>
> I have prepared the attached discussion of abc, and used the
> microbenchmark given in the paper to clarify the issue. I have
> attached what I plan to add to my review (abcnotes.txt).
>
> I would really like to have abc'ers opinion on this paper. Do
> we want to push it a bit - at least it shows that cflow is
> a problem and abc does well ... or is it too weak a paper
> overall? Do you agree with my discussion of abc/ajc and how
> it relates to this paper?
>
> Cheers, Laurie
>
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