Abstract
Short-code threading for virtual machine interpreters is substantially similar to direct threading. But short-code threading consumes less memory at the cost of a little performance degradation, as compared with direct threading in a 32-bit or 64-bit address machine. A 16-bit short-code is used to enroll the least two significant bytes of the emulation address at the phase of preparing translated code, and a virtual segment register is used to store the remainder of the address. Experiments on benchmark programs of SPECJVM 98 showed that short-code threading is slightly slower than direct threading but short-code threading requires lesser memory to store the translated address: one half in 32-bit addressing and one quarter in 64-bit addressing. Therefore, short-code threading is much suitable for memory-constrained embedded system.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications, ESA 2008 |
| Pages | 228-232 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Publication status | Published - 2008 Dec 1 |
| Event | 2008 International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications, ESA 2008 - Las Vegas, NV, United States Duration: 2008 Jul 14 → 2008 Jul 17 |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications, ESA 2008 |
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Other
| Other | 2008 International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications, ESA 2008 |
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| Country | United States |
| City | Las Vegas, NV |
| Period | 08-07-14 → 08-07-17 |
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All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Computer Science Applications
- Hardware and Architecture
- Software
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Short-code threading : A memory-saving and efficient approach to accelerate the token threaded code for embedded systems. / Hou, Ting Wei; Chen, Fuh Gwo; Lin, Chin Yang.
Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications, ESA 2008. 2008. p. 228-232 (Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications, ESA 2008).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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AB - Short-code threading for virtual machine interpreters is substantially similar to direct threading. But short-code threading consumes less memory at the cost of a little performance degradation, as compared with direct threading in a 32-bit or 64-bit address machine. A 16-bit short-code is used to enroll the least two significant bytes of the emulation address at the phase of preparing translated code, and a virtual segment register is used to store the remainder of the address. Experiments on benchmark programs of SPECJVM 98 showed that short-code threading is slightly slower than direct threading but short-code threading requires lesser memory to store the translated address: one half in 32-bit addressing and one quarter in 64-bit addressing. Therefore, short-code threading is much suitable for memory-constrained embedded system.
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