Using hardware performance monitors to understand the behavior of Java applications

Proceedings of the 3rd Virtual Machine Research and Technology Symposium, JAVA VM 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Sweeney, Peter F ^a   Hauswirth, Matthias ^b   Cahoon, Brendon ^a   Cheng, Perry ^a   Diwan, Amer ^b   Grove, David ^a   Hind, Michael ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; MIDDLEWARE; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; NETWORK SECURITY; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; VIRTUAL MACHINE;

APPLICATION SERVERS; GRAPHICAL INTERFACE; HARDWARE PERFORMANCE MONITORS; JAVA APPLICATIONS; LONG-RUNNING APPLICATIONS; MODERN PROCESSORS; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 85093843527     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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