Portable and accurate sampling profiling for Java

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 615-650

  Binder, Walter ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bytecode instrumentation; Java; JVM; Program transformations; Sampling profiling

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PROGRAMMING THEORY; SAMPLING;

BYTECODE INSTRUMENTATION; JAVA; JVM; PROGRAM TRANSFORMATIONS; SAMPLING PROFILING;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 33646598714     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: 1097024X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.712     Document Type: Article

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