Active Libraries: Rethinking the roles of compilers and libraries

Abstract

We describe Active Libraries, which take an active role in compilation. Unlike traditional libraries which are passive collections of functions and objects, Active Libraries may generate components, specialize algorithms, optimize code, configure and tune themselves for a target machine, and describe themselves to tools (such as profilers and debuggers) in an intelligible way. Several such libraries are described, as are implementation technologies.

16 pages, 1998 SIAM Workshop on Object Oriented Methods for Inter-operable Scientific and Engineering Computing

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