Thin guards: A simple and effective technique for reducing the penalty of dynamic class loading

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

Volumn 2374, Issue , 2002, Pages 498-524

  Arnold, Matthew ^a,b   Ryder, Barbara G ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROGRAM COMPILERS;

CLASS LOADING; COMPILER OPTIMIZATIONS; DYNAMIC CLASS LOADING; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; OPTIMIZING COMPILERS; RUN-TIME TESTS; SOFTWARE COMPONENT; SPECULATIVE OPTIMIZATION;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84944070647     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-47993-7_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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