A lot of my research has involved Java bytecode instrumentation with ASM and more recently, also JVMTI development. For instance, with VMVM, we instrumented bytecode to enable efficient java class ...

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In the last year or two, interest in "alternative" languages on top of the Java Virtual Machine has grown exponentially, to the point where three languages were blessed with official acceptance in the ...

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In the quest for ever faster JavaScript, there has been a recurring refrain: why use JavaScript at all? JavaScript engines have been a major focus of browser developers for some years, and the result ...

Abstract: To evaluate analysis tools for blockchain programs or to analyze an entire ecosystem of blockchain programs, representative samples are needed. Typically, samples are randomly selected from ...

We discuss the challenges faced by bytecode analyzers designed for code verification compared to similar analyzers for source code. While a bytecode-level analysis brings many simplifications, eg, ...