• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.281-287
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• 2008

Data transfers occur during the execution time of a Java program, from constant to variable, from variable to other variable and so on. Data are located in memory and hence data transfer requires access to memory. As memory access generates both time delay and energy consumption it is absolutely necessary to know the data transfer overheads incurred among different paths not only to write an efficient program but also to build a high-performance Java virtual machine. In this paper we classify Java memory into three different regions, constant, local variable, and field, and then investigate data transfer overheads among these regions. The result says that the transfer between local variables incur the least overhead usually, while the transfer between fields incur the most. The difference of overheads reaches up to a double. Optimization techniques like JIT reduces the data transfer overhead dramatically. It is observed that the overhead is reduced from 14 to 27 times for the case of Hotspot JVM.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.41-49
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• 2009

Smart Card is currently more popular in mobile communication, and smart card with java card platform becomes a standard choice. Java card has a problem that it gets lost working data when power is off. Transaction is the idea to solve a problem of data loss, but it accepts only one transaction process, and other transaction process need to hold until the current working transaction is finished. This might be a factor to drop the Java card's performance. In this paper, we define a rule of dual-lock which can run transaction at multiple transaction buffer as a method for a better java card performance, and we suggest this rule to improve a capability of transaction process. From this research, we are able to improve the data stability, reduce the java card transaction delay time, and get a higher processing speed of java card.