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Compilers translate abstract code containing high-level language instructions to low-level form. Meta-compilers are specialized compilers used to compile source code containing statements from multiple programming languages. Data structures in different languages can be used in a single language known as metalanguage. In this paper, optimization techniques on string objects for a metalanguage developed using C++ and Java are presented. It offers a flexible programming environment for users. String objects in Java take more memory and access time since it contains information about the globally shared array, length, and offset of currently executing strings. Most of the time the shared character array is not completely used and the garbage collection becomes difficult. Meta-compiler uses array representation for all string operations allowed in Java and C++. A virtual machine backend is designed for the meta-framework and bytecodes are rewritten for string operations in C++ and Java using arrays. It shows considerable improvement in the execution performance of meta-programs using strings compared to C++ and Java.
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Nadera Beevi, S. (2020). Compressing Metaclass Files Through String Optimization. In: Sharma, H., Govindan, K., Poonia, R., Kumar, S., El-Medany, W. (eds) Advances in Computing and Intelligent Systems. Algorithms for Intelligent Systems. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0222-4_6
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