The case for virtual register machines

Proceedings of the 2003 Workshop on Interpreters, Virtual Machines and Emulators, IVME 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 41-49

  Davis, Brian ^a   Beatty, Andrew ^a   Casey, Kevin ^a   Gregg, David ^a   Waldron, John ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Interpreter; Register architecture; Stack architecture; Virtual machine

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; VIRTUAL MACHINE;

EXECUTED INSTRUCTIONS; INTERPRETER; JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINES; REGISTER ARCHITECTURE; REGISTER MACHINES; STACK ARCHITECTURE; TRANSLATION PROCESS; WORKING SYSTEMS;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 84962893832     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/858570.858575     Document Type: Conference Paper

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