Abstract
Multimedia stream processing is a rapidly evolving domain which requires much software development and expects high performance. Developing a streaming application often involves low-level programming, critical memory management, and finely tuned scheduling of processing steps.
To address these problems, we present a domain-specific language (DSL) named Spidle, for specifying streaming applications. Spidle offers high-level and declarative constructs; compared to general-purpose languages (GPL), it improves robustness by enabling a variety of verifications to be performed.
To assess the expressiveness of Spidle in practice, we have used it to specify a number of standardized and special-purpose streaming applications. These specifications are up to 2 times smaller than equivalent programs written in a GPL such as C.
We have implemented a compiler for Spidle. Preliminary results show that compiled Spidle programs are roughly as efficient as the compiled, equivalent C programs.
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Consel, C., Hamdi, H., Réveillère, L., Singaravelu, L., Yu, H., Pu, C. (2003). Spidle: A DSL Approach to Specifying Streaming Applications. In: Pfenning, F., Smaragdakis, Y. (eds) Generative Programming and Component Engineering. GPCE 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2830. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39815-8_1
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