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OO runtime graphs are scale-freeIf you liked Barabási's book, you'll find this interesting. The May issue of CACM has an article called Scale-Free Geometry in OO Programs [PDF, 180K] by Alex Potanin, James Noble, Marcus Frean, and Robert Biddle. They examined 60 heap snapshots from 35 different Java programs and found all of the resulting object graphs to be scale-free. This is true for both incoming and outgoing links with the qualification that objects rich in incoming links are poor in outgoing links and vice versa. What are the implications of this for PL research in OO languages? The authors point out the following: Any other interesting implications? By el-vadimo at 2005-04-27 14:53 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 6746 reads
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