Context Threading: A flexible and efficient dispatch technique for virtual machine interpreters Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:1971995, abstract = {Direct-threaded interpreters use indirect branches to dispatch bytecodes, but deeply-pipelined architectures rely on branch prediction for performance. Due to the poor correlation between the virtual program's control flow and the hardware program counter, which we call the context problem, direct threading's indirect branches are poorly predicted by the hardware, limiting performance. Our dispatch technique, context threading, improves branch prediction and performance by aligning hardware and ...}, author = {Berndl, Marc and Vitale, Benjamin and Zaleski, Mathew and Brown, Angela D.}, booktitle = {Proceedings of CGO-4}, citeulike-article-id = {1971995}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.59.1271}, posted-at = {2009-01-21 10:57:46}, priority = {2}, title = {Context Threading: A flexible and efficient dispatch technique for virtual machine interpreters}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.59.1271}, year = {2005} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:1971995 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1971995 N2 - Direct-threaded interpreters use indirect branches to dispatch bytecodes, but deeply-pipelined architectures rely on branch prediction for performance. Due to the poor correlation between the virtual program's control flow and the hardware program counter, which we call the context problem, direct threading's indirect branches are poorly predicted by the hardware, limiting performance. Our dispatch technique, context threading, improves branch prediction and performance by aligning hardware and ... TI - Context Threading: A flexible and efficient dispatch technique for virtual machine interpreters T2 - Proceedings of CGO-4 AU - Berndl, Marc AU - Vitale, Benjamin AU - Zaleski, Mathew AU - Brown, Angela PY - 2005/// UR - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.59.1271 ER -