COOL User Manual, March 1990, Texas Instruments Inc.
M.Fontana & M.Neath, Checked Out and Long Overdue: Experiences in the Design of a C++ Class Library, Texas Instrument Inc.
Did you get the paper about COOL "Checked Out and Long Overdue: Experiences in the Design of a C++ Class Library". In this paper, the authors discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the design of COOL. A couple of points that they mentioned that they would do differently would be to simplify the dependencies between classes by using MI. Also they would factor out the use of the symbolic and package mechanism. Performance is not mentioned as an issue.