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The potential of speculative class-loading

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Platforms such as Java provide many software engineering benefits. However, these benefits often come at the cost of significant runtime overhead. In this paper we study the potential for hiding some of that overhead by employing speculative execution techniques. In particular, we study the predictability of class-loading requests and the potential benefits of speculatively preloading classes in interactive applications.

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PPPJ '07: Proceedings of the 5th international symposium on Principles and practice of programming in Java
September 2007
260 pages
ISBN:9781595936721
DOI:10.1145/1294325
  • General Chair:
  • Vasco Amaral
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