Smalltalk-80: bits of history, words of advice
Smalltalk-80: bits of history, words of advice
Stack caching for interpreters
PLDI '95 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1995 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Shifting garbage collection overhead to compile time
Communications of the ACM
An efficient, incremental, automatic garbage collector
Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM
A method for overlapping and erasure of lists
Communications of the ACM
Optimizing indirect branch prediction accuracy in virtual machine interpreters
PLDI '03 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2003 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Java Bytecode Verification: Algorithms and Formalizations
Journal of Automated Reasoning
High Performance Storage Reclamation in an Object-Based Memory System
High Performance Storage Reclamation in an Object-Based Memory System
Combining stack caching with dynamic superinstructions
Proceedings of the 2004 workshop on Interpreters, virtual machines and emulators
Compiler optimizations for nondeferred reference: counting garbage collection
Proceedings of the 5th international symposium on Memory management
Virtual machine showdown: Stack versus registers
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO)
A principled approach to nondeferred reference-counting garbage collection
Proceedings of the fourth ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments
Tracing the meta-level: PyPy's tracing JIT compiler
Proceedings of the 4th workshop on the Implementation, Compilation, Optimization of Object-Oriented Languages and Programming Systems
Optimization of dynamic languages using hierarchical layering of virtual machines
DLS '09 Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Dynamic languages
Virtual-Machine Abstraction and Optimization Techniques
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Dynamic interpretation for dynamic scripting languages
Proceedings of the 8th annual IEEE/ACM international symposium on Code generation and optimization
Efficient inline caching without dynamic translation
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Inline caching meets quickening
ECOOP'10 Proceedings of the 24th European conference on Object-oriented programming
Interpreter instruction scheduling
CC'11/ETAPS'11 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Compiler construction: part of the joint European conferences on theory and practice of software
An interpreter for server-side hop
Proceedings of the 7th symposium on Dynamic languages
Self-optimizing AST interpreters
Proceedings of the 8th symposium on Dynamic languages
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international symposium on New ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on programming & software
Deoptimization for dynamic language JITs on typed, stack-based virtual machines
Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments
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Just-in-time compilers offer the biggest achievable payoff performance-wise, but their implementation is a non-trivial, time-consuming task affecting the interpreter's maintenance for years to come, too. Recent research addresses this issue by providing ways of leveraging existing just-in-time compilation infrastructures. Though there has been considerable research on improving the efficiency of just-in-time compilers, the area of optimizing interpreters has gotten less attention as if the implementation of a dynamic translation system was the "ultima ratio" for efficiently interpreting programming languages. We present optimization techniques for improving the efficiency of interpreters without requiring just-in-time compilation thereby maintaining the ease-of-implementation characteristic that brought many people to implementing an interpreter in the first place.