Exploring an Aspect-Oriented Approach to OS Code
Yvonne Coady, Gregor Kiczales, Michael J. Feeley, Norman C. Hutchinson, Joon Suan Ong · 2001
Operating system code is complex. But, while substantial complexity is inherent to this domain, we believe that other complexity is caused by modularity problems. In this paper, we explore aspect-oriented programming as a means of making this kind of complexity unnecessary. We show that simple linguistic constructs can be used to modularize prefetching – an aspect of the system that is otherwise unclear because its implementation is spread out in the code.