ECOOP 2026
Mon 29 June - Fri 3 July 2026 Brussels, Belgium

Dynamic languages such as Python, Ruby, or R rely heavily on native C/C++ functions using a foreign function interface. While they significantly speed up baseline performance, these functions are opaque to a Just-in-time compiler — parameter and return types, side effects, and argument counts are not exposed for optimization. We propose an approach that analyzes native code in the context of the host VM, opening up the semantics of native code without the need for manual transformation. From this we identify three use cases: a) inferring precise types and side effects for JIT specialization, b) modeling the dynamic language semantics in the same IR, enabling whole-program analysis, and c) extracting specialized native code slices that only capture the main logic for subsets of inputs.

Mon 29 Jun

Displayed time zone: Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris change

16:00 - 17:30
Presentation Session 3, Industrial Keynote and ClosingDoctoral Symposium at I.2.01
Chair(s): Annette Bieniusa RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Pietro Ferrara Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
16:00
30m
Talk
Seeing Through the FFI: Analyzing Native Code in Dynamic Languages
Doctoral Symposium
Filip Riha Czech Technical University
16:30
45m
Industry talk
Between Academia and Industry: 15 Years as a Researcher
Doctoral Symposium
17:15
15m
Day closing
Closing session
Doctoral Symposium
Annette Bieniusa RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Pietro Ferrara Ca’ Foscari University of Venice