TY - RPRT
T1 - Time and Space Efficient Multi-Method Dispatching
AU - Alstrup, Stephen
AU - Gørtz, Inge Li
AU - Rauhe, Theis
AU - Brodal, Gerth
PY - 2001/10
Y1 - 2001/10
N2 - The dispatching problem for object oriented languages is the problem of determining the most specialized method to invoke for calls at run-time. This can be a critical component of execution performance. A number of recent results, including [Muthukrishnan and M¨ uller SODA'96, Ferragina and Muthukrishnan ESA'96, Alstrup et al. FOCS'98], have studied this problem and in particular provided various efficient data structures for the mono-method dispatching problem. A recent paper of Ferragina, Muthukrishnan and de Berg [STOC'99] addresses the multi-method dispatching problem. Our main result is a linear space data structure for binary dispatching that supports dispatching in logarithmic time. Using the same query time as Ferragina et al., this result improves the space bound with a logarithmic factor.
AB - The dispatching problem for object oriented languages is the problem of determining the most specialized method to invoke for calls at run-time. This can be a critical component of execution performance. A number of recent results, including [Muthukrishnan and M¨ uller SODA'96, Ferragina and Muthukrishnan ESA'96, Alstrup et al. FOCS'98], have studied this problem and in particular provided various efficient data structures for the mono-method dispatching problem. A recent paper of Ferragina, Muthukrishnan and de Berg [STOC'99] addresses the multi-method dispatching problem. Our main result is a linear space data structure for binary dispatching that supports dispatching in logarithmic time. Using the same query time as Ferragina et al., this result improves the space bound with a logarithmic factor.
M3 - Report
T3 - IT University Technical Report Series
BT - Time and Space Efficient Multi-Method Dispatching
PB - IT-Universitetet i København
CY - Copenhagen
ER -