JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 11(7): 1291-1309, doi: 10.3217/jucs-011-07-1291
An Experimental Evaluation of JAVA JIT Technology
expand article infoAnderson Faustino da Silva‡, Vitor Santos Costa‡
‡ Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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

© Anderson Faustino da Silva, Vitor Costa.
This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.
Citation: Silva AF, Costa VS (2005) An Experimental Evaluation of JAVA JIT Technology. JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 11(7): 1291-1309. https://doi.org/10.3217/jucs-011-07-1291
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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.
Keywords
dynamic compilation, just-in-time compiler, compiler optimizations