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Functional Java Bytecode

Last modified: Mon May 21 16:44:32 2001 GMT.

Authors

Christopher League
Valery Trifonov
Zhong Shao

Abstract

We describe the design and implementation of lambda-JVM, a functional representation of Java bytecode that makes data flow explicit, verification simple, and that is well-suited for translation into lower-level representations such as those used in optimizing compilers. It is a good alternative to stack-based Java bytecode for virtual machines or ahead-of-time compilers which optimize methods and produce native code. We use lambda-JVM as one component in a sophisticated type-preserving compiler for Java class files. Though our implementation is incomplete, preliminary measurements of both compile and run times are promising.

Published

  • In Proc. 5th Conf. on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics, Orlando, FL.

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