Supporting objects in run-time bytecode specialization

Reynald Affeldt; Hidehiko Masuhara; Eijiro Sumii; Akinori Yonezawa

doi:10.1145/568173.568179

Supporting objects in run-time bytecode specialization

Reynald Affeldt, Hidehiko Masuhara, Eijiro Sumii, Akinori Yonezawa

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Abstract

This paper describes a run-time specialization system for the Java language. One of the main difficulties of supporting the full Java language resides in a sound yet effective management of references to objects. This is because the specialization process may share references with the running application that executes the residual code, and because side-effects through those references by the specialization process could easily break the semantics of the running application. To cope with these difficulties, we elaborate requirements that ensure sound run-time specialization. Based on them, we design and implement a run-time specialization system for the Java language, which exhibits, for instance, approximately 20-25% speed-up factor for a ray-tracing application.

Original language	English
Pages	50-60
Number of pages	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/568173.568179
Publication status	Published - 2002 Jan 1
Externally published	Yes
Event	Asian Symposium on Partial Evaluation and Semantics - Based Program Manipulation - Aizu, Japan Duration: 2002 Sep 12 → 2002 Sep 14

Other

Other	Asian Symposium on Partial Evaluation and Semantics - Based Program Manipulation
Country	Japan
City	Aizu
Period	02/9/12 → 02/9/14

Keywords

Object-oriented paradigm
Partial evaluation
Program transformation
Specialization

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software

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