The JikesXen Java Server Platform

by Gousios, Georgios

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Abstract

The purpose of the JVM is to abstract the Java language from the hardware and software platforms it runs on. For this rea- son, the JVM uses services offered by the host operating sys- tem in order to implement identical services for the Java lan- guage. The obvious duplication of effort in service provision and resource management between the JVM and the operat- ing system has a measurable cost on the performance of Java programs. In my PhD research, I try to find ways of min- imizing the cost of sharing resources between the OS and the JVM, by identifying and removing unnecessary software layers.

Bibtex record

@inproceedings{G07,
  author = {Gousios, Georgios},
  booktitle = {Companion to the 22nd ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications (OOPSLA)},
  location = {Montreal, Canada},
  month = oct,
  title = {The {J}ikes{X}en {J}ava Server Platform},
  doi = {10.1145/1297846.1297959},
  pages = {947--948},
  year = {2007},
  url = {/pub/jikesxen.pdf}
}

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