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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | EuroSys '06: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems 2006 |
| Pages | 191-204 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 2006 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 2006 EuroSys Conference - Leuven, Belgium Duration: 18 Apr 2006 → 21 Apr 2006 |
Abstract
Nearly ten years after its first presentation and five years after its first application to operating systems, the suitability of Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) for the development of operating system kernels is still highly in dispute. While the AOP advocacy emphasizes the benefits of AOP towards better configurability and maintainability of system software, most kernel developers express a sound skepticism regarding the thereby induced runtime and memory costs: Operating system kernels have to be lean and efficient.We have analyzed the runtime and memory costs of aspects in general, on the level of μ-benchmarks, and by refactoring and extending the eCos operating system kernel using AspectC++, an AOP extension to the C++ language. Our results show that most AOP features do not induce a intrinsic overhead and that the actual overhead induced by AspectC++ is very low. We have also analyzed a test case with significant aspect-related costs. This example shows how the structure of the underlying kernel can have a negative impact on aspect implementations and how these costs can be avoided by an aspect-aware design.Based on this analysis, our conclusion is that AOP is suitable for the development of operating system kernels and other kinds of highly efficient infrastructure software.
Keywords
- Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP), AspectC++, ECos, Footprint
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Science(all)
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Computer Science(all)
- Hardware and Architecture
- Computer Science(all)
- Information Systems
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EuroSys '06: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems 2006. 2006. p. 191-204 1217954.
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