Dynamic Languages Symposium (HPI)

Most Notable Paper Award 2016 for 2006
- Recipients: Armin Rigo and Samuele Pedroni
- Title: PyPy's Approach to Virtual Machine Construction
- Conference: DLS 2006
- Paper: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1176753
- Citation: The 2006 DLS paper "PyPy's Approach to Virtual Machine Construction" introduced the PyPy Python interpreter and the RPython framework. Both are still highly relevant in various areas to this day and will continue to be in influential for many years, thus demonstrating highly impressive long-term vision and impact. The paper laid the theoretical and practical foundations of constructing a virtual machine from a high-level description and was consequently built upon by numerous follow-up publications. The software, which continues to be developed by a large and active open source community, proved extensively usable in multiple academic and industrial contexts.
- Certificate: pdf
DLS 2016 papers available for download from the ACM Digital Library!
Presentation of invited talk available here!

It is our pleasure to welcome you to the 12^th edition of the Dynamic Language Symposium (DLS), co-located with SPLASH 2016 in Amsterdam. From Lisp and SNOBOL to Python and JavaScript, Dynamic Languages have been playing a fundamental role both in programming research and practice, and DLS is the premier forum to discuss those languages. Every year, DLS is the place researchers and practitioners go to share research and experience on all aspects of Dynamic Languages.

This year we received twenty high-quality submissions, of which we selected eleven for presentation, covering areas like optional type systems, language design, tools, and implementation. Following the experience from previous years, we adopted a two-round process for reviewing the submissions. The second phase allowed a strong interaction between the authors and the Program Committee, which not only selected the papers, but contributed to improve them.

We are very happy to have Ross McIlroy giving an invited talk about Ignition, a new high-performance interpreter for the V8 engine.

Finally, we would like to thank the Program Committee, the SPLASH organization, the authors, and mainly you, the audience.

Roberto Ierusalimschy
DLS 2016 Program Chair
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
Brazil

Dynamic Languages Symposium 2016