We have created Zap, a novel system for transparent migration of legacy and networked applications. Zap provides a thin virtualization layer on top of the operating system that in...
Steven Osman, Dinesh Subhraveti, Gong Su, Jason Ni...
Memory performance is an important design issue for contemporary systems given the ever increasing memory gap. This paper proposes a space-efficient Java object model for reducing...
Kris Venstermans, Lieven Eeckhout, Koen De Bossche...
The indirection of object accesses is a common theme for target domains as diverse as transparent distribution, persistence, and program instrumentation. Virtualizing accesses to ...
Phil McGachey, Antony L. Hosking, J. Eliot B. Moss
Execution behavior of a Java application can be nondeterministic due to concurrent threads of execution, thread scheduling, and variable network delays. This nondeterminism in Jav...
Virtual machines (VMs) are commonly used to distribute programs in an architecture-neutral format, which can easily be interpreted or compiled. A long-running question in the desi...
Yunhe Shi, David Gregg, Andrew Beatty, M. Anton Er...