Aspects of memory management
| dc.contributor.author | Gibbs, C | |
| dc.contributor.author | Coady, Y | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2009-07-31T15:36:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2009-07-31T15:36:05Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2005 | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2005 | |
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| dc.description.abstract | With the constant demand for system change and upgrades comes the need to simplify and ensure accuracy in this process. As structural boundaries decay, non-local modifications compound the costs of system evolution and adaptation. Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) aims to improve structural boundaries for concerns that are inherently crosscutting - no single hierarchical decomposition can localize both the crosscutting concern and the concerns it crosscuts. This paper provides a case study of three crosscutting concerns within a rapidly evolving memory management subsystem of a JVM. The study shows how aspects can be structured as a natural locus of control, and how this new modularity provides leverage for system evolution and adaptation. Demonstrated benefits include enhanced extensibility for a dynamic analysis tool, centralized configurability for a subsystem-wide synchronization mechanism, and increased verifiability for a domain-specific design pattern. | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Gibbs, C.; Coady, Y., System Sciences, 2005. HICSS '05. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1485 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | IEEE | en |
| dc.subject.department | Department of Computer Science | |
| dc.title | Aspects of memory management | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |