Adaptive Compression of Syntax Trees and Iterative Dynamic Code Optimization: Two Basic Technologies for Mobile-Object Systems (1997)
| Venue: | Mobile Object Systems: Towards the Programmable Internet, number 1222 in LNCS |
| Citations: | 24 - 0 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Franz97adaptivecompression,
author = {Michael Franz},
title = {Adaptive Compression of Syntax Trees and Iterative Dynamic Code Optimization: Two Basic Technologies for Mobile-Object Systems},
booktitle = {Mobile Object Systems: Towards the Programmable Internet, number 1222 in LNCS},
year = {1997},
pages = {263--276},
publisher = {Springer}
}
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Abstract
We are designing and implementing a flexible infrastructure for mobile-object systems. Two fundamental innovations distinguish our architecture from other proposed solutions. First, our representation of mobile code is based on adaptive compression of syntax trees. Not only is this representation more than twice as dense as Java byte-codes, but it also encodes semantic information on a much higher level than linear abstract-machine representations such as p-code or Java byte-codes. The extra structural information that is contained in our mobile-code format is directly beneficial for advanced code optimizations. Second, our architecture achieves superior run-time performance by integrating the activity of generating executable code into the operating system itself. Rather than being an auxiliary function performed off-line by a stand-alone compiler, code generation constitutes a central, indispensable service in our system. Our integral code generator has two distinct modes of operat...
