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An empirical study of Java bytecode programs
Author(s) -
Collberg Christian,
Myles Ginger,
Stepp Michael
Publication year - 2007
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/spe.776
Subject(s) - bytecode , computer science , programming language , java bytecode , java , compiler , inheritance (genetic algorithm) , control flow , java applet , class (philosophy) , operating system , theoretical computer science , java annotation , artificial intelligence , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
We present a study of the static structure of real Java bytecode programs. A total of 1132 Java jar‐files were collected from the Internet and analyzed. In addition to simple counts (number of methods per class, number of bytecode instructions per method, etc.), structural metrics such as the complexity of control‐flow and inheritance graphs were computed. We believe this study will be valuable in the design of future programming languages and virtual machine instruction sets, as well as in the efficient implementation of compilers and other language processors. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.