A method-level comparison of the Java Grande and SPEC JVM98 benchmark suites

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 17, Issue 7-8, 2005, Pages 757-773

  Gregg, David ^a   Power, James ^b   Waldron, John ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Benchmark suites; Dynamic profiling; Java Virtual Machine

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); DATA STRUCTURES; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROGRAM COMPILERS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

BENCHMARK SUITES; CLASS HIERARCHY ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC PROFILING; JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINES;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 18444408365     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.846     Document Type: Conference Paper

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