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Design and implementation of Pep, a JavaTM just-in-time translator

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Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Weight: 378 KB
Volume: 3
Category: Article
ISSN: 1074-3227
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-9942(1997)3:2<127::aid-tapo4>3.0.co;2-s

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✦ Synopsis

Java, a new object-oriented member of the C family of languages, has become popular in part because it emphasizes portability. Portability is achieved by compiling programs to machine-independent bytecodes that can be interpreted on a Java virtual machine. Unfortunately, interpreted performance does not match native code performance. A just-in-time compiler can regain performance without sacrificing portability by turning the bytecodes into native code at runtime. This idea has a proven track record: Deutsch and Schiffman presented a dynamic Smalltalk compiler in 1984 [5], and the Self system currently sports a dynamic type-feedback based optimizing compiler [12]. To study the performance potential of Java with this state-of-the-art optimization technology, we built Pep, a just-in-time compiler from Java bytecodes to Self. Following translation by Pep, Java programs can execute on the Self virtual machine and benefit from the optimizations performed by Self's compiler. We describe the design and implementation of Pep, focusing on concepts and trade-offs, but also compare performance with the JDK 1.0.2 and 1.1 interpreters.

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