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Dynamic monitor allocation in the Java virtual machine

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Marcel Dombrowski,

Kenneth B. Kent,

Michael Dawson,

Charlie Gracie,

Rainer HerpersAuthors Info & Claims

JTRES '13: Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Java Technologies for Real-time and Embedded Systems

Pages 30 - 37

https://doi.org/10.1145/2512989.2512996

Published: 09 October 2013 Publication History

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With the Java language and sandboxed environments becoming more and more popular research needs to be conducted into improving the performance of these environments while decreasing their memory footprints. In this paper we present a dynamic approach for growing monitors for objects in order to reduce the memory footprint and improve the execution time of the IBM Java Virtual Machine. According to the Java Language Specification every object needs a monitor, however not all objects require synchronization, thus the monitor can have a negative memory impact. Our new approach grows monitors only when required. The impact of this approach on performance and memory has been evaluated using the SPECjbb2005 benchmark and future work is also discussed. On average a performance increase of 0.47% and a memory reduction of about 5.51% has been achieved with our approach.

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Yang BKent KAubanel ELin AAjila TZheng YBinder WTůma P(2016)Multi-tier Data Synchronization Based on an Optimized Concurrent Linked-listProceedings of the 13th International Conference on Principles and Practices of Programming on the Java Platform: Virtual Machines, Languages, and Tools10.1145/2972206.2972213(1-10)Online publication date: 29-Aug-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2972206.2972213
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2886444.2886473

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JTRES '13: Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Java Technologies for Real-time and Embedded Systems

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ISBN:9781450321662

DOI:10.1145/2512989

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Yang BKent KAubanel ELin AAjila TZheng YBinder WTůma P(2016)Multi-tier Data Synchronization Based on an Optimized Concurrent Linked-listProceedings of the 13th International Conference on Principles and Practices of Programming on the Java Platform: Virtual Machines, Languages, and Tools10.1145/2972206.2972213(1-10)Online publication date: 29-Aug-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2972206.2972213
Yang BKent KAubanel ETaylor K(2015)A monitor-based synchronization approach for Java packed objectsProceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering10.5555/2886444.2886473(192-200)Online publication date: 2-Nov-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2886444.2886473

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