Record data structures in racket: usage analysis and optimization

@article{Pape2017RecordDS,
  title={Record data structures in racket: usage analysis and optimization},
  author={Tobias Pape and Vasily Kirilichev and Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick and Robert Hirschfeld},
  journal={ACM Sigapp Applied Computing Review},
  year={2017},
  volume={16},
  pages={25-37}
}
Built-in data structures are a key contributor to the performance of dynamic languages. Record data structures, or records, are one of the common advanced, but not easily optimizable built-in data structures supported by those languages. Records may be used in an object-oriented fashion or to implement object orientation itself. In this paper, we analyze how records are used in different applications in the Scheme dialect Racket. Based on the data obtained, we suggest the application of… 
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