Annotating Java class files with virtual registers for performance

Concurrency Practice and Experience

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 389-406

  Jones, Joel ^a   Kamin, Samuel ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; PROGRAM COMPILERS;

RUNTIME CODE GENERATION; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 0034187435     PISSN: 10403108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1096-9128(200005)12:6<389::AID-CPE481>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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