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Demystifying Magic: High-level Low-level Programming

Date

Authors

Frampton, Daniel

Blackburn, Stephen

Cheng, Perry

Garner, Robin

Grove, David

Moss, J Eliot B

Salishev, Sergey I.

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery Inc (ACM)

Abstract

The power of high-level languages lies in their abstraction over hardware and software complexity, leading to greater security, better reliability, and lower development costs. However, opaque abstractions are often show-stoppers for systems programmers,

Keywords

Keywords: Development costs; Experimentation; Hardware and software; Languages; Performance; Practical experience; Unboxing; Virtual machines; Abstracting; Architecture; Computer programming; Linguistics; Quality assurance; Query languages; Semantics; Software engi Design; Experimentation; Languages; Performance; Reliability

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/53021

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Type

Book Title

Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments

DOI

10.1145/1508293.1508305

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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