There are varieties of embedded systems in the world, it’s a big challenge to optimized the instruction sets of SoCs according to different systems’ working environments. The idea of dynamic ...

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src/ ├── tokens.ts Token types and keyword table ├── lexer.ts Tokenizer: source → Token [] ├── ast.ts AST node type definitions ├── parser.ts Recursive descent parser: Token [] → AST ├── opcodes.ts ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of ...

VortexJS is a Research-Inspired Virtualization Engine. It is an educational study in compiler theory and software protection. It serves as a proof-of-concept for a source-to-source compiler that ...

Jazelle Extension Another way to speed Java execution on a standard RISC architecture is to extend the architecture itself, to directly execute Java instructions. ARM designers added a new Java ...

Java compilers take center stage in this second article in the JVM performance optimization series. Eva Andreasson introduces the different breeds of compiler and compares performance results from ...

Most Java programmers, at one time or another, have wondered how the JVM works. Java bytecode programming reveals much insight into the JVM and helps developers program Java better. Also, the ability ...

In the world of software engineering, code can take multiple forms from the time it's written by a programmer to the moment it is executed by a computer. What begins as high-level source code, written ...