Abstract. Cost analysis of Java bytecode is complicated by its unstructured control flow, the use of an operand stack and its object-oriented programming features (like dynamic di...
Many instructors use program runtimes to illustrate and reinforce algorithm complexity concepts. Hardware, operating system and compilers have historically influenced runtime resu...
The Java memory model described in Chapter 17 of the Java Language Specification gives constraints on how threads interact through memory. This chapter is hard to interpret and po...
"If you are new to programming in the Java language, have some experience with other languages, and are familiar with things like displaying text or graphics or performing sim...
Abstract. This paper presents a framework for supporting the optimization of Java programs using attributes in Java class files. We show how class file attributes may be used to ...