A Partitioning Analysis of the .NET Common Language Runtime

Author

Dick, Joshua R. ; Kent, Kenneth B. ; Libby, Joseph C.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Comput. Sci., New Brunswick Univ., Fredericton, NB

fYear

2007

fDate

26-29 March 2007

Firstpage

317

Lastpage

326

Abstract

Microsoft´s .NET platform was developed to simplify development of Windows applications. At the core of the .Net platform is a virtual machine known as the Common Language Runtime (CLR). Virtual machines do not allow for optimal performance, and a full hardware implementation is not always feasible. The goal of this paper is to present a preliminary partitioning scheme upon which future refinements can be made, and to analyze the performance of the partitioning scheme based on instructions executed in each partition and the data to be passed between partitions. Conclusions and recommendations as to implementation of the hardware partition are given to aid in future implementations of a hardware/software co-designed CLR

Keywords

high level languages; network operating systems; virtual machines; Common Language Runtime; Microsoft .NET; Windows application; partitioning analysis; virtual machine; Application software; Computer aided instruction; Computer science; Hardware; Memory management; Microprocessors; Object oriented modeling; Operating systems; Runtime; Virtual machining;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, 2007. ECBS '07. 14th Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshops on the

Conference_Location

Tucson, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2772-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECBS.2007.9

Filename

4148947