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• Arnold Schwaighofer: Tail Call Optimization in the Java HotSpot™ VM. Master's thesis, Institute for System Software, Johannes Kepler University Linz, 2009.
  This thesis describes the complete architecture and implementation of the virtual machine changes, together with a comprehensive evaluation.

Continuations

Continuations, or 'the rest of the computation', are a concept that is most often used in the context of functional and dynamic programming languages. Our implementation of continuations in the Java virtual machine uses a lazy or on-demand approach. Our system imposes zero run-time overhead as long as no activations need to be saved and restored and performs well when continuations are used.

• Lukas Stadler, Christian Wimmer, Thomas Würthinger, Hanspeter Mössenböck, John Rose: Lazy Continuations for Java Virtual Machines. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Principles and Practice of Programming in Java, pages 143-152. ACM Press, 2009. doi:10.1145/1596655.1596679

Escape Analysis for the Client Compiler

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