A quantitative study for Java microprocessor architectural requirements. Part II: high-level language support

Abstract Java was designed for network programming. This imposes certain requirements on its virtual machine instruction set architecture and on designs that intend to support Java. The purpose of this study is to carry out a behavioral analysis of the different aspects of Java instruction set architecture. Performance metrics were collected through benchmarking a bytecode interpreter. In this second part of our two-part paper, we study the instruction set utilization, instruction execution time, method invocation behavior, and the effect of object-orientation.

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