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Implementing an Efficient Java Interpreter

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David Gregg,

M. Anton Ertl,

Andreas KrallAuthors Info & Claims

HPCN Europe 2001: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on High-Performance Computing and Networking

Pages 613 - 620

Published: 25 June 2001 Publication History

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The Java virtual machine (JVM) is usually implemented with an interpreter or just-in-time (JIT) compiler. JIT compilers provide the best performance, but must be substantially rewritten for each architecture they are ported to. Interpreters are easier to develop and maintain, and can be ported to new architectures with almost no changes. The weakness of interpreters is that they are much slower than JIT compilers. This paper describes work in progress on a highly efficient Java interpreter. We describe the main features that make our interpreter efficient. Our initial experimental results show that an interpreter-based JVM may be only 1.9 times slower than a compiler-based JVM for some important applications.

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