Improving developer productivity with C++ embedded domain specific languages
| Autor: | Eric J. Kelmelis, James Bonnett, Aaron Paolini, Evenie Chao, Stephen Kozacik |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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010302 applied physics
Domain-specific language Vocabulary Programming language Computer science media_common.quotation_subject Interoperability computer.software_genre Supercomputer 01 natural sciences Domain (software engineering) 010309 optics Set (abstract data type) 0103 physical sciences Preprocessor Compiler computer media_common |
| Zdroj: | SPIE Proceedings. |
| ISSN: | 0277-786X |
| DOI: | 10.1117/12.2264800 |
| Popis: | Domain-specific languages are a useful tool for productivity allowing domain experts to program using familiar concepts and vocabulary while benefiting from performance choices made by computing experts. Embedding the domain specific language into an existing language allows easy interoperability with non-domain-specific code and use of standard compilers and build systems. In C++, this is enabled through the template and preprocessor features. C++ embedded domain specific languages (EDSLs) allow the user to write simple, safe, performant, domain specific code that has access to all the low-level functionality that C and C++ offer as well as the diverse set of libraries available in the C/C++ ecosystem. In this paper, we will discuss several tools available for building EDSLs in C++ and show examples of projects successfully leveraging EDSLs. Modern C++ has added many useful new features to the language which we have leveraged to further extend the capability of EDSLs. At EM Photonics, we have used EDSLs to allow developers to transparently benefit from using high performance computing (HPC) hardware. We will show ways EDSLs combine with existing technologies and EM Photonics high performance tools and libraries to produce clean, short, high performance code in ways that were not previously possible. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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