Reflective object management in the Muse operating system

Presents reflective object management as a set of facilities for handling objects with various properties such as grain-size and lifespan efficiently and naturally. The facilities are classes, variable-length identifiers, memory management, and efficient communication between objects. These facilities are based on the Muse object architecture and implemented on the Muse operating system. Reflective object management can define objects in such a way that there is no distinction between objects supported by operating systems and objects supported by programming languages in a multi-lingual environment. The authors also show their preliminary evaluation of the implementation