The behavior of efficient virtual machine interpreters on modern architectures

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2150, Issue , 2001, Pages 403-413

  Anton Ertl, M ^a   Gregg, David ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGER PROGRAMMING;

BRANCH PREDICTION; CODE INTERPRETER; EXECUTED INSTRUCTIONS; INDIRECT BRANCH; INTEGER PROGRAM; MODERN ARCHITECTURES; SUPERSCALAR ARCHITECTURE; VIRTUAL MACHINE INTERPRETERS;

PROGRAM INTERPRETERS;

EID: 84937415475     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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