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[Sablevm-developer] More Useful Links

[Brent F. <bre...@xp...>]

More interesting ideas:

1.  "JAVAB" Is a tool that can take a Java "*.class" file and
automatically detect and exploit implicit loop parallelism in
the bytecode.  This would be really cool, but it has a restrictive
license (i.e., free for non-commercial use).  It's not that big
a loss, since it probably only helps on multi-processor systems.
http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/~ajcbik/JAVAB/index.html

2.  "SOOT" is a Java optimization framework.  It may or may not
be useful as I haven't spent time to see if it's only used for
Java source code (as opposed to bytecode).
http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/soot/

3.  "KIEV" is a Java varient based on Pizza.  It produces standard
Java bytecode as output.  It implements Closures with inner classes.
http://forestro.com/kiev/

Regards,

-Brent

Re: [Sablevm-developer] More Useful Links

[Etienne M. G. <eg...@j-...>]

Hi Brent.

Brent Fulgham wrote:
> 2.  "SOOT" is a Java optimization framework.  It may or may not
> be useful as I haven't spent time to see if it's only used for
> Java source code (as opposed to bytecode).
> http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/soot/

I know quite a bit about Soot;  I have implemented its type inference
algorithm, and just presented a paper about that at SAS2000.  Soot is an
optimization framework for Java bytecode.  So, it reads any "verifiable"
bytecodes (the original source could be Java, scheme, ML, whatever) and
transforms it into typed 3-address code, suitable for optimization, then
it can spit out optimized bytecode back.

It is one of our goal to have some integration of Soot with SableVM. 
Soot already can generate attributes in class files, that we should be
able to handle in SableVM before the end of the summer.

Etienne
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Etienne M. Gagnon, M.Sc.                     e-mail: eg...@j-...
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