Generating Virtual Machine Code of JavaScript Engine for Embedded Systems

• Published in: Journal of Information Processing Vol. 30; pp. 679 - 693
• Main Authors: Hirasawa, Yuta, Iwasaki, Hideya, Ugawa, Tomoharu, Onozawa, Hiro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Information Processing Society of Japan 2022
• Subjects: compilers; domain-specific languages; JavaScript virtual machine; VM internal datatype

Virtual machines (VMs) for dynamically managed languages such as JavaScript are generally implemented in C or C++. Implementation of VMs in such low-level languages offers the advantage of high flexibility, but it suffers from problems of descriptiveness and safety. These problems are due to the fac...