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Hybrid Java compilation and optimization for digital TV software platform

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Dong-Heon Jung,

Soo-Mook Moon, and

Hyeong-Seok OhAuthors Info & Claims

CGO '10: Proceedings of the 8th annual IEEE/ACM international symposium on Code generation and optimization

April 2010

Pages 73 - 81

https://doi.org/10.1145/1772954.1772966

Published: 24 April 2010 Publication History

Abstract

The Java software platform for the interactive digital TV (DTV) is composed of the system/middleware classes statically installed on the DTV set-top box and the xlet classes dynamically downloaded from the TV stations, where xlets are executed only when the TV viewer initiates the interaction. In order to achieve high performance on this dual-component, user-initiated system, existing just-in-time compilation is not enough, but idle-time compilation and optimization as well as ahead-of-time compilation are also needed, requiring a hybrid compilation and optimization environment. We constructed such a hybrid environment for a commercial DTV software platform and experimented with real, on-air xlet applications. Our experimental results show that the proposed hybrid environment can improve the DTV Java performance by as much as an average of 150%, compared to the JITC-only environment.

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Index Terms

Hybrid Java compilation and optimization for digital TV software platform
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Embedded and cyber-physical systems
    1. Embedded systems
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Compilers
      1. Runtime environments
      2. Source code generation
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Embedded software
      2. Real-time systems software

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CGO '10: Proceedings of the 8th annual IEEE/ACM international symposium on Code generation and optimization

April 2010

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DOI:10.1145/1772954

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2506257
Zhang YYang MZhou BYang ZZhang WZang B(2012)SwiftACM SIGPLAN Notices10.1145/2365864.215103547:7(63-74)Online publication date: 3-Mar-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2365864.2151035
dos Santos Junior JBraga Kde Souza DLopes JVilela GLima DZapater JDurá JLópez VPla Castells M(2012)Exploring the interactivity for citizenship applications in the Brazilian Digital Television SystemProceedings of the 6th Euro American Conference on Telematics and Information Systems10.1145/2261605.2261626(143-148)Online publication date: 23-May-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2261605.2261626
Zhang YYang MZhou BYang ZZhang WZang BHand Sda Silva D(2012)SwiftProceedings of the 8th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS conference on Virtual Execution Environments10.1145/2151024.2151035(63-74)Online publication date: 3-Mar-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2151024.2151035

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