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Publication
PACT 1999
Conference paper
Dynamic linking on a shared-memory multiprocessor
Abstract
This paper presents a technique for back-patching instructions in an SMP environment. This technique is used by the Jalapeno virtual machine to support dynamic class loading in Java. There is a small runtime overhead the first time a back-patch site is executed. Thereafter, it executes at the same speed as equivalent sites not requiring back-patching.