A prototype bytecode parallelization tool
Aart J. C. Bik, Dennis B. Gannon · Concurrency Practice and Experience · 1998
This paper provides a manual for javab, a prototype tool that supports the automatic detection and exploitation of implicit loop parallelism in JVM bytecode. Implicit parallelism is made explicit by means of the multi-threading mechanism provided by the JVM. Automatically exploiting implicit parallelism at bytecode level can be done independently from the source program and platform from which the bytecode was obtained, and independently from the platform on which the bytecode eventually will run. The parallelized bytecode remains architecturally neutral and may exhibit speedup on any platform that supports the true parallel execution of JVM threads. This project is supported by DARPA under contract ARPA F19628–94–C–0057 through a sub-contract from Syracuse University. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.