April 1998
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
16h 11m
English
book
Sun Performance and Tuning: Java™ and the Internet, Second Edition
by Adrian Cockcroft, Richard Pettit
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User-Defined Classes
The four language classes provide a significant amount of data to a program for analysis. But the analysis of this data can become convoluted and make the program difficult to deal with. This is one of the problems that SymbEL hoped to clear up. Adding more language classes is a potential solution to this problem.
An example of an additional language class that would be useful is a vmstat class. This would be a structure that provided all of the information that the vmstat program provides. The problem is that such an addition would make se larger and provide functionality that didn't really require the internals of the interpreter to accomplish. All of what vmstat does can be done by a SymbEL program.
In addition to the ...