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Enhancement Through Extension: the Extension Interpreter by D. Notkin; W. G. Griswold is a Computer Science article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Enhancement Through Extension: the Extension Interpreter about?

The ability to extend programs dynamically has clear advantages. However, providing efficient yet sufficiently flexible support for such capabilities system-wide presents significant challenges. We describe a design and implementation of an extension mechanism that depends heavily on interpretive techniques, including call arbitration, dynamic linking, and multilanguage extensions. We discuss these mechanisms in the context of our Extension Interpreter , which embodies our ideas and provides a framework for discussing the efficiency and generality of the implementation. Our current implementation runs under BSD UNIX 4.2 and 4.3 on VAXes and SUN workstations. Extensions can be written in both C and in Icon, demonstrating our ability to address problems both of compiled and interpreted languages.

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It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Computer Science.

Author
D. Notkin; W. G. Griswold
Publisher
ACM
Published
1987
Language
EN
Field
Computer Science (Physical Sciences)

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