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JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science

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0948-695X 0948-6968

Journal of Universal Computer Science

10.3217/jucs-011-07-1291

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Research Article

C.4 - PERFORMANCE OF SYSTEMS D.3.4 - Processors

An Experimental Evaluation of JAVA JIT Technology

Silva

Anderson Faustino da

faustino@cos.ufrj.br 1 Costa

Vitor Santos

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, , Brazil

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Brazil

Corresponding author: Anderson Faustino da Silva (faustino@cos.ufrj.br).

Academic editor:

2005

28 07 2005

11 7 1291 1309 E4BA0826-2F9D-5F8F-A58C-6559B31BF0D2 6996817

Anderson Faustino da Silva, Vitor Santos Costa

This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.

Abstract

Interpreted languages are widely used due to ease to use, portability, and safety. On the other hand, interpretation imposes a significance overhead. Justin Time (JIT) compilation is a popular approach to improving the runtime performance of languages such as Java. We compare the performance of a JIT compiler with a traditional compiler and with an emulator. We show that the compilation overhead from using JIT is negligible, and that the JIT compiler achieves better overall performance, suggesting the case for aggresive compilation in JIT compilers.