A Java Virtual Machine design based on hybrid concurrent compilation model

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zheng Weimin ◽  
Zheng Fengzhou ◽  
Yang Bo ◽  
Wang Yanling
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Machine ◽  
Java Virtual Machine ◽  
Machine Design

scholarly journals JINDY: A java library to support invokedynamic

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Conde ◽  
Francisco Ortin
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Machine ◽  
Programming Language ◽  
Java Virtual Machine ◽  
Memory Consumption ◽  
Java Programming ◽  
Abstraction Level ◽  
Java Platform ◽  
Runtime Performance ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Java Library

Java 7 has included the new invokedynamic opcode in the Java virtual machine. This new instruction allows the user to define method linkage at runtime. Once the link is established, the virtual machine performs its common optimizations, providing better runtime performance than reflection. However, this feature has not been offered at the abstraction level of the Java programming language. Since the functionality of the new opcode is not provided as a library, the existing languages in the Java platform can only use it at the assembly level. For this reason, we have developed the JINDY library that offers invokedynamic to any programming language in the Java platform. JINDY supports three modes of use, establishing a trade-off between runtime performance and flexibility. A runtime performance and memory consumption evaluation is presented. We analyze the efficiency of JINDY compared to reflection, the MethodHandle class in Java 7 and the Dynalink library. The memory and performance costs compared to the invokedynamic opcode are also measured.

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