Monthly Archives: June 2007

Allocating objects with NEW initializes the object state and sets all object variables to 0/0.0/null. When performing load elimination (where we match up stores into captured objects with subsequent loads), we previously didn’t eliminate these types of loads because they … Continue reading →

A paper describing the Java Virtual Machine Language (JVML) interpreter we have implemented as part of our trace tree just-in-time (JIT) compiler has been accepted to the ACM Conference on Principles and Practice of Programming in Java (PPPJ’07). What makes … Continue reading →

We finished today the guard elimination pass, which is responsible for redundant null check and array bounds check elimination. Since all conditional branches appear as guards in our representation, the guard elimination pass is able to merge and simplify loop … Continue reading →