Dynamic Cooperative Performance Optimizations

The reliability, security, and performance of modern software systems is of great importance academically and commercially. A major trend in applications from cell phones to servers is the use of type safe languages such as Java and C#. Unfortunately these languaes suffer performance problems, curtailing their adoption and retarding progress toward secure, reliable, and high performancesoftware systems. This proposal addresses the performance issues raised by these languages, problems which pervade computer architecture, operating systems, and programming language runtime systems. We target memory performance, attacking the problem at all of these levels levels in an integrated and dynamic manner.