Multicodes: optimizing virtual machines using bytecode sequences

Authors:
Ben Stephenson;Wade Holst
Affiliations:
University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada;University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
Venue:
OOPSLA '03 Companion of the 18th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Year:
2003

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Abstract

A virtual machine optimization technique that makes use of bytecode sequences is introduced. The process of determining candidate sequences is discussed and performance gains achieved when applied to a Java interpreter are presented. The suitability of this optimization for JVMs that perform just-in-time compilation is also discussed.