Dynamic code management: Improving whole program code locality in managed runtimes

VEE 2006 - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 133-143

  Huang, Xianglong ^a   Lewis, Brian T ^b   McKinley, Kathryn S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Code Generation; Code Layout; Dynamic Optimization; Locality; Performance Monitoring; Virtual Machines

Indexed keywords

CODE GENERATION; DYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION; LOCALITY; PERFORMANCE MONITORING; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

ALGORITHMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROGRAM COMPILERS; SERVERS; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER); VIRTUAL REALITY;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 33745938942     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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