Experimentation

We are conducting the following experiments, to evaluate the various memory management and performance enhancement strategies.

• Implementation of both standard and bidirectional instance layout, and comparison of the tracing speed of SableVM's copying collector on both layouts.
• Measure the memory overhead of sparse interface method lookup tables in application benchmarks. Test, using micro benchmarks,
  SableVM's behavior in presence of pathological cases.
• Measure the size of class loader memory fragments returned to the memory manager for recycling. Measure how much of this memory gets effectively reused. Explore the possibility of not managing these fragments if the storage they require is insignificant.
• Evaluate relative speed of SableVM compared to the speed of other Java virtual machines running on Linux, using a set of standard
  benchmarks, and some micro benchmarks.

The results of these experiments can be found on the following web site [6].