A dynamic binary translation system in a client/server environment

Journal of Systems Architecture

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 307-319

  Hsu, Chun Chen ^a   Hong, Ding Yong ^b   Hsu, Wei Chung ^a   Liu, Pangfeng ^a   Wu, Jan Jan ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Asynchronous computing; Client server model; Dynamic binary translation; Region formation optimization

Indexed keywords

ARM PROCESSORS; BINS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MOBILE DEVICES;

ASYNCHRONOUS COMPUTING; BINARY TRANSLATION; CLIENT/SERVER MODELS; DESKTOP APPLICATIONS; DYNAMIC BINARY TRANSLATION; FORMATION OPTIMIZATION; MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR; OVERALL EXECUTION;

DYNAMIC MODELS;

EID: 84937023432     PISSN: 13837621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sysarc.2015.05.002     Document Type: Article

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