Architecture Independent Characterization of Embedded Java Workloads

Author

Desai, Aniruddha ; Singh, Jugdutt

Author_Institution

La Trobe Univ., Melbourne, VIC

Volume

8

Issue

1

fYear

2009

Firstpage

29

Lastpage

32

Abstract

This paper presents architecture independent characterization of embedded Java workloads based on the industry standard GrinderBench benchmark which includes different classes of real world embedded Java applications. This work is based on a custom built embedded Java virtual machine (JVM) simulator specifically designed for embedded JVM modeling and embodies domain specific details such as thread scheduling, algorithms used for native CLDC APIs and runtime data structures optimized for use in embedded systems. The results presented include dynamic execution characteristics, dynamic bytecode instruction mix, application and API workload distribution, object allocation statistics, instruction-set coverage, memory usage statistics and method code and stack frame characteristics.

Keywords

Java; application program interfaces; data structures; embedded systems; instruction sets; multi-threading; scheduling; storage allocation; virtual machines; CLDC API; JVM; architecture independent characterization; custom built embedded Java virtual machine simulator; dynamic bytecode instruction mix; dynamic execution characteristics; embedded Java workload; industry standard GrinderBench benchmark; instruction-set coverage; memory usage statistics; method code characteristics; object allocation statistics; runtime data structure; stack frame characteristics; thread scheduling; Embedded Systems; Java; Java bytecode; Workload Characterization;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer Architecture Letters

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1556-6056

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/L-CA.2009.7

Filename

5004931