A portable sampling-based profiler for Java virtual machines

ACM 2000 Java Grande Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 78-87

  Whaley, John ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; FEEDBACK; OPTIMIZATION; PROGRAM COMPILERS; SAMPLING;

VIRTUAL MACHINES;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 0034593387     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/337449.337483     Document Type: Conference Paper

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