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Marmot: an optimizing compiler for Java
Author(s) -
Fitzgerald Robert,
Knoblock Todd B.,
Ruf Erik,
Steensgaard Bjarne,
Tarditi David
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-024x(200003)30:3<199::aid-spe296>3.0.co;2-2
Subject(s) - marmot , computer science , java , compiler , programming language , real time java , implementation , code (set theory) , operating system , set (abstract data type) , ecology , biology
Abstract The Marmot system is a research platform for studying the implementation of high level programming languages. It currently comprises an optimizing native‐code compiler, runtime system, and libraries for a large subset of Java. Marmot integrates well‐known representation, optimization, code generation, and runtime techniques with a few Java‐specific features to achieve competitive performance. This paper contains a description of the Marmot system design, along with highlights of our experience applying and adapting traditional implementation techniques to Java. A detailed performance evaluation assesses both Marmot's overall performance relative to other Java and C++ implementations, and the relative costs of various Java language features in Marmot‐compiled code. Our experience with Marmot has demonstrated that well‐known compilation techniques can produce very good performance for static Java applications – comparable or superior to other Java systems, and approaching that of C++ in some cases. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.