Java supports distributed programming using threads and Remote Method Invocation (JRMI). However, a Java thread does not match well with the object concept, and JRMI cannot easily...
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Dynamic languages such as Javascript are the de-facto standard for web applications. However, generating efficient code for dynamically-typed languages is a challenge, because it...
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Java bytecodes can be executed with the following three methods: a Java interpretor running on a particular machine interprets bytecodes; a Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler translates ...
Embedded processors are increasingly deployed in applications requiring high performance with good real-time characteristics whilst being low power. Parallelism has to be extracte...
Heterogeneous multi-core processors, such as the IBM Cell processor, can deliver high performance. However, these processors are notoriously difficult to program: different cores...