Allocation wall: A limiting factor of java applications on emerging multi-core platforms

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 361-376

  Zhao, Yi ^a   Shi, Jin ^b   Zheng, Kai ^a   Wang, Haichuan ^a   Lin, Haibo ^a   Shao, Ling ^a  

^a IBM CHINA RESEARCH LAB   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Allocation; Java; Scalability

Indexed keywords

ALLOCATION; BENCHMARK PROGRAMS; CPU CORES; HARDWARE PLATFORM; JAVA; JAVA APPLICATIONS; LARGE DISPARITY; LIMITING FACTORS; MEMORY BUS; MEMORY WALL; MICRO-BENCHMARK; MULTI CORE; MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR; OBJECT ALLOCATION; SOFTWARE THREADS; STRONG CORRELATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; SCALABILITY;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 70350625339     PISSN: 15232867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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