Language selection for mobile systems: Java, C, or both?

Keith S. Vallerio; Niraj Kumar Jha

Language selection for mobile systems: Java, C, or both?

Keith S. Vallerio, Niraj Kumar Jha

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Abstract

For many years, C has been known as a fast, yet unfriendly language. Similarly, Java presents its own trade-offs, including more advanced language features at the cost of slower execution. As Java implementations continue to mature, this distinction has become less clear. Special hardware, better libraries and more sophisticated compilers have placed Java-based program execution times in the same realm as C-based programs. This paper demonstrates that superior performance is obtained by carefully selecting the appropriate language for implementing the system. In some cases, this will involve both languages interacting synergistically. For the SciMark 2.0 benchmark suite, using the Java Native Interface (JNI) increases performance by 2.29X for the best case and 1.29X on average compared to the C implementation on a Sharp Zaurus PDA. Simultaneously, the energy improvement for the best case is 2.26X and 1.24X on average.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications ESA'04 - Proceedings of the INternational Conference on VLSI, VLSI'04
Editors	H.R. Arabnia, M. Guo, L.T. Yang
Pages	185-191
Number of pages	7
State	Published - Dec 1 2004
Event	Proceedings of the International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications ESA'04 - Proceedings of the International Conference on VLSI, VLSI'04 - Las Vegas, NV, United States Duration: Jun 21 2004 → Jun 24 2004

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Other	Proceedings of the International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications ESA'04 - Proceedings of the International Conference on VLSI, VLSI'04
Country/Territory	United States
City	Las Vegas, NV
Period	6/21/04 → 6/24/04

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Vallerio, KS & Jha, NK 2004, Language selection for mobile systems: Java, C, or both? in HR Arabnia, M Guo & LT Yang (eds), Proceedings of the International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications ESA'04 - Proceedings of the INternational Conference on VLSI, VLSI'04. pp. 185-191, Proceedings of the International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications ESA'04 - Proceedings of the International Conference on VLSI, VLSI'04, Las Vegas, NV, United States, 6/21/04.

Language selection for mobile systems: Java, C, or both? / Vallerio, Keith S.; Jha, Niraj Kumar.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications ESA'04 - Proceedings of the INternational Conference on VLSI, VLSI'04. ed. / H.R. Arabnia; M. Guo; L.T. Yang. 2004. p. 185-191.

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