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OpenJIT Frontend System: An Implementation of the Reflective JIT Compiler Frontend

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Reflection and Software Engineering (OORaSE 1999)

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OpenJIT is an open-ended, reflective JIT compiler framework for Java being researched and developed in a joint project by Tokyo Inst. Tech. and Fujitsu Ltd. Although in general self-descriptive systems have been studied in various contexts such as reflection and interpreter/compiler bootstrapping, OpenJIT is a first system we know to date that offers a stable, full-fledged Java JIT compiler that plugs into existing monolithic JVMs, and offer competitive performance to JITs typically written in C or C++. We propose an architecture for a reflective JIT compiler on a monolithic VM, and describe the details of its frontend system. And we demonstrate how reflective JITs could be useful class-or application specific customization and optimization by providing an important reflective “hook” into a Java system. We will focus on the Frontend portion of the OpenJIT system for this article; the details of the backend is described in [20].

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  1. Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo

    Hirotaka Ogawa, Satoshi Matsuoka, Fuyuhiko Maruyama & Yukihiko Sohda

  2. Fujitsu Laboratories Limited, Japan

    Kouya Shimura & Yasunori Kimura

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy

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  2. Universitàa di Genova - DISI, Via Dodecaneso 35, 16146, Genova, Italy

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  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK

    Robert J. Stroud

  4. Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi 8, 20126, Milano, Italy

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Ogawa, H., Shimura, K., Matsuoka, S., Maruyama, F., Sohda, Y., Kimura, Y. (2000). OpenJIT Frontend System: An Implementation of the Reflective JIT Compiler Frontend. In: Cazzola, W., Stroud, R.J., Tisato, F. (eds) Reflection and Software Engineering. OORaSE 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1826. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45046-7_8

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