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Jelatine: a virtual machine for small embedded systems

Authors:

Giovanni Agosta,

Stefano Crespi Reghizzi,

Gabriele SveltoAuthors Info & Claims

JTRES '06: Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on Java technologies for real-time and embedded systems

Pages 170 - 177

https://doi.org/10.1145/1167999.1168028

Published: 11 October 2006 Publication History

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The growth and diffusion of embedded systems raises the need for portable and reusable embedded software. To this end, the J2ME specification defines a Java Virtual Machine targeted to embedded systems. In this paper, we present Jelatine, a virtual machine based on the J2ME CLDC specification. We identify several design choices that are crucial for the efficience (both from the performance and memory occupation) of the virtual machine, and show through experimental evaluation the impact of these choices. Jelatine proves twice as fast as the reference implementation of J2ME CLDC, KVM, and almost as fast as open source Java VMs such as SableVM and JamVM while being able to use memory much more efficiently than its competitors.

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Jelatine: a virtual machine for small embedded systems
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Compilers
      1. Interpreters

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JTRES '06: Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on Java technologies for real-time and embedded systems

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242 pages

ISBN:1595935444

DOI:10.1145/1167999

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