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Mixed-mode Bytecode Execution

Author(s):
Ole Agesen and David Detlefs
Report Number: Date Published: Available Formats:
TR-2000-87 June 2000 Portable Document Format (PDF)
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Abstract

Modern high-performance virtual machines use dynamic compilation. There is a tension between compilation speed and code quality. We argue that a highly-optimizing compiler is best deployed with both a fast, less-optimizing compiler and an interpreter. We present measurements showing that such a system can achieve the same peak performance as a system with just the optimizing compiler, and startup costs similar to a system with just the interpreter and fast compiler.

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