SPLASH 2023
Sun 22 - Fri 27 October 2023 Cascais, Portugal
Mon 23 Oct 2023 14:50 - 15:15 at Room VI - Session #3 Chair(s): Tony Hosking

Ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation is a well-known approach to statically compile programs to native code before they are executed. In contrast, just-in-time (JIT) compilation typically starts with executing a slower, less optimized version of the code and compiles frequently executed methods at run time. In doing so, information from static and dynamic analysis is utilized to speculate and help generate highly efficient code. However, generating such an efficient JIT-compiled code is challenging, and this introduces a trade-off between start-up performance and peak performance.

In this paper, we present a novel way to execute programs by bringing together the divergence that existed between AOT and JIT compilation. Instead of having the JIT compiler analyze the program during interpretation to produce optimal code, critical functions are initially executed natively with code produced by the AOT compiler in order to gain a head start. Thus, we avoid the overhead of JIT compilation for natively executed methods and increase the start-up performance. We implemented our approach in GraalVM, which is a multi-language virtual machine based on the Java HotSpot VM. Improvements in start-up performance show a speed-up of up to 1.7x. However, the results depend heavily on how we select which code is run natively and which code is interpreted and JIT compiled.

Mon 23 Oct

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14:00 - 15:30
Session #3VMIL at Room VI
Chair(s): Tony Hosking Australian National University
14:00
25m
Paper
Debugging Dynamic Language Features in a Multi-Tier Virtual MachineRemote
VMIL
Anmolpreet Singh Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Aayush Sharma Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Meetesh Kalpesh Mehta IIT Bombay, Manas Thakur IIT Bombay
14:25
25m
Paper
Array Bytecode Support in MicroJIT
VMIL
Shubham Verma University of New Brunswick, Harpreet Kaur University of New Brunswick, Kenneth Kent University of New Brunswick, Marius Pirvu IBM
14:50
25m
Paper
Hybrid Execution: Combining Ahead-of-Time and Just-in-Time Compilation
VMIL
Christoph Pichler Johannes Kepler University Linz, Paley Li Oracle, Roland Schatz Johannes Kepler University Linz, Hanspeter Mössenböck JKU Linz
15:15
15m
Short-paper
Approximating Type Stability in the Julia JITRemote
VMIL
Artem Pelenitsyn Purdue University