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This paper describes how virtual classes can be supported in a virtual machine. Main-stream virtual machines such as the Java Virtual Machine and the .NET platform dominate the world today, and many languages are being executed on these virtual machines ...

The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) has been widely adopted in part because of its classfile format, which is portable, compact, modular, verifiable, and reasonably easy to work with. However, it was designed for just one language---Java---and so when it is ...

Today's major high-level language virtual machines (VMs) are becoming successful in being multi-language execution platforms, hosting a wide range of languages. With the transition from few-core to many-core processors, we argue that VMs will also have ...

Many software-engineering tools for the Java Virtual Machine that perform some form of dynamic program analysis, such as profilers or debuggers, are implemented with low-level bytecode instrumentation techniques. While program manipulation at the ...

Many consumer devices, such as portable game consoles or cellphones, can be described as battery-powered wireless embedded devices. Many of these are not taking advantage of virtual machines, certainly not for their core tasks, instead relying on C or ...

The performance evaluation of virtual machines is notoriously difficult. Therefore, experimental methodology has recently drawn attention, leading to proposals on how to choose benchmarks, interpret results, and detect measurement bias. But this latter ...