JVM-hosted languages: They talk the talk, but do they walk the walk?

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 101-112

  Li, Wing Hang ^a   White, David R ^a   Singer, Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamic analysis; Java virtual machine; JVM bytecode

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; TOOLS;

BYTECODES; DYNAMIC BEHAVIORS; EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS; GARBAGE COLLECTION; INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION; JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINES; JIT COMPILATIONS; SOFTWARE INFRASTRUCTURE;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 84886444852     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2500828.2500838     Document Type: Conference Paper

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