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| VMKit: a Substrate for Managed Runtime Environments |
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| Nicolas Geoffray, Gael Thomas, Julia Lawall, Gilles Muller and Bertil Folliot |
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| <h2>Abstract:</h2> |
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| Managed Runtime Environments (MREs), such as the JVM and the CLI, form an |
| attractive environment for program execution, by providing portability and |
| safety, via the use of a bytecode language and automatic memory management, |
| as well as good performance, via just-in-time (JIT) compilation. |
| Nevertheless, developing a fully featured MRE, including e.g. |
| a garbage collector and JIT compiler, is a herculean |
| task. As a result, new languages cannot easily take advantage of the |
| benefits of MREs, and it is difficult to experiment with |
| extensions of existing MRE based languages. |
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| This paper describes and evaluates VMKit, a first attempt to build a common |
| substrate that eases the development of high-level MREs. We have successfully |
| used VMKit to build two MREs: a Java Virtual Machine and a Common |
| Language Runtime. We provide an extensive study of the lessons learned in |
| developing this infrastructure, and assess the ease of implementing new |
| MREs or MRE extensions and the resulting performance. In |
| particular, it took one of the authors only one month to develop a Common |
| Language Runtime using VMKit. VMKit furthermore has performance comparable |
| to the well established open source MREs Cacao, Apache Harmony and Mono, and is |
| 1.2 to 3 times slower than JikesRVM on most of the DaCapo |
| benchmarks. |
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| <h2>Bibtex:</h2> |
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| @inproceedings{geoffray10vmkit, |
| author = {N. Geoffray and G. Thomas and J.Lawall and G. Muller and B. Folliot}, |
| title = {{VMKit: a Substrate for Managed Runtime Environments}}, |
| booktitle = {Virtual Execution Environment Conference (VEE 2010)}, |
| publisher = {ACM Press}, |
| year = {2010}, |
| month = {March}, |
| address = {Pittsburgh, USA} |
| } |
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| <li><a href="http://llvm.org/pubs/2010-03-VEE-VMKit.pdf">VMKit: a Substrate for Managed Runtime Environments</a> (PDF)</li> |
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