A dynamic compiler for embedded Java virtual machines

Authors:
Mourad Debbabi;Abdelouahed Gherbi;Lamia Ketari;Chamseddine Talhi;Nadia Tawbi;Hamdi Yahyaoui;Sami Zhioua
Affiliations:
Concordia University, Quebec, Canada;Concordia University, Quebec, Canada;Laval University, Quebec, Canada;Laval University, Quebec, Canada;Laval University, Quebec, Canada;Laval University, Quebec, Canada;Concordia University, Quebec, Canada
Venue:
Proceedings of the 3rd international symposium on Principles and practice of programming in Java
Year:
2004

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Abstract

A new acceleration technology for Java embedded virtual machines is presented in this paper. Based on the selective dynamic compilation technique, this technology addresses the J2ME/CLDC (Java 2 Micro Edition for Connected Limited Device Configuration) platform. The primary objective of our work is to come up with an efficient, lightweight and low-footprint accelerated embedded Java Virtual Machine. This is achieved by the means of integrating a selective dynamic compiler that we called E-Bunny into the J2ME/CLDC virtual machine KVM. This paper presents the motivations, the architecture, the design and the implementation issues of E-Bunny and how we addressed them. Experimental results on the performance of our modified KVM demonstrate that we accomplished a speedup of 400% with respect to the latest version of KVM. This experimentation was carried on using standard J2ME benchmarks.