Implementation of object-oriented programming via register based pointer

Abstract

This paper describes an implementation method for object-oriented applications. In the common practice the base address of the current object instance is passed on the stack as a pointer from one virtual method to another. The way suggested in this paper uses a global pointer pointing to the currently active object. This pointer is implemented by using some of the CPU registers exclusively for this purpose, thus saving the time of reloading it. Provided that some instructions manipulate on the same object instance before the program switches to another object a smaller and faster executing code can be achieved and at the same time some stack space can be saved.