%0 Conference Paper %1 Brunthaler:2010:EIU %A Brunthaler, Stefan %B Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on Dynamic Languages %D 2010 %I ACM %K Bytecode Interpreter Quickening %N 12 %P 1--14 %R 10.1145/1899661.1869633 %T Efficient Interpretation Using Quickening %X Just-in-time compilers offer the biggest achievable payoff performance-wise, but their implementation is a non-trivial, time-consuming task affecting the interpreter's maintenance for years to come, too. Recent research addresses this issue by providing ways of leveraging existing just-in-time compilation infrastructures. Though there has been considerable research on improving the efficiency of just-in-time compilers, the area of optimizing interpreters has gotten less attention as if the implementation of a dynamic translation system was the ültima ratio" for efficiently interpreting programming languages. We present optimization techniques for improving the efficiency of interpreters without requiring just-in-time compilation thereby maintaining the ease-of-implementation characteristic that brought many people to implementing an interpreter in the first place.

@inproceedings{Brunthaler:2010:EIU, abstract = {Just-in-time compilers offer the biggest achievable payoff performance-wise, but their implementation is a non-trivial, time-consuming task affecting the interpreter's maintenance for years to come, too. Recent research addresses this issue by providing ways of leveraging existing just-in-time compilation infrastructures. Though there has been considerable research on improving the efficiency of just-in-time compilers, the area of optimizing interpreters has gotten less attention as if the implementation of a dynamic translation system was the "ultima ratio" for efficiently interpreting programming languages. We present optimization techniques for improving the efficiency of interpreters without requiring just-in-time compilation thereby maintaining the ease-of-implementation characteristic that brought many people to implementing an interpreter in the first place.}, acmid = {1869633}, added-at = {2014-03-19T15:33:29.000+0100}, author = {Brunthaler, Stefan}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2def5d2401de60904b8fb06564195486d/gron}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on Dynamic Languages}, description = {Efficient interpretation using quickening}, doi = {10.1145/1899661.1869633}, interhash = {e79b403b4d056b4d58d72d80a4b84880}, intrahash = {def5d2401de60904b8fb06564195486d}, issn = {0362-1340}, issue_date = {December 2010}, keywords = {Bytecode Interpreter Quickening}, month = oct, number = 12, numpages = {14}, pages = {1--14}, publisher = {ACM}, series = {DLS}, timestamp = {2014-12-09T13:49:24.000+0100}, title = {{Efficient Interpretation Using Quickening}}, year = 2010 }