A Performance Analysis of an Object-Oriented Processor

Author

Yiyu, Tan ; Man, Lo Kai ; Fong, Anthony S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., City Univ. of Hong Kong

fYear

2006

fDate

10-12 April 2006

Firstpage

690

Lastpage

694

Abstract

Java is relatively a new object-oriented programming (OOP) language. It has the advantages of object-oriented languages such as encapsulation, polymorphism, dynamic binding and inheritance. Consequently programs developed by Java are more reliable and secure and Java is widely used in embedded system and the other application areas. However, as traditional computer architectures RISC and CISC (2000) do not provide much hardware support for OOP, their performance for OOP is notoriously poor. In this paper, a performance analysis of an object-oriented processor jHISC is presented, which supports most object oriented instructions in hardware level. By comparing the cycle count of related instructions with PicoJava II, it can speed up the execution of object-oriented related instructions from 700% to 1700% and overall performance from 390% to 630%

Keywords

Java; instruction sets; object-oriented programming; program processors; software performance evaluation; Java program; PicoJava II; jHISC; object oriented instruction; object-oriented processor; object-oriented programming language; object-oriented related instruction; Application software; Computer architecture; Embedded system; Encapsulation; Hardware; Java; Object oriented programming; Performance analysis; Reduced instruction set computing; Reliability engineering; Java; Object-oriented programming; bytecode; operand descriptor; performance.;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology: New Generations, 2006. ITNG 2006. Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2497-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITNG.2006.14

Filename

1611685