How Java programs interact with virtual machines at the microarchitectural level

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 169-186

  Eeckhout, Lieven ^a   Georges, Andy ^a   De Bosschere, Koen ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MICROPROGRAMMING; OPEN SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

JAVA BENCHMARKS; OPEN SOURCE RAYTRACER; STATISTICAL DATA ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL MACHINE TECHNOLOGY;

PROGRAM DIAGNOSTICS;

EID: 1442337578     PISSN: 03621340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/949343.949321     Document Type: Conference Paper

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