Annotating the Java bytecodes in support of optimization

Concurrency Practice and Experience

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1003-1016

  Hummel, Joseph ^a   Azevedo, Ana ^b   Kolson, David ^b   Nicolau, Alexandru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE PORTABILITY; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROGRAM COMPILERS;

JAVA BYTECODES; JAVA PROGRAMS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 0031271862     PISSN: 10403108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(199711)9:11<1003::AID-CPE346>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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