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Virtual Machine for programming language Tutor: Joey Coleman Wei Lai 109195601 2011/3/15 Weil Lai b0919560 Page 2 of 10 Introduction Virtual machine is a kind of abstract machine which used to implement the functions of software emulation, and it also enhances software interoperability, system impregnability, and platform versatility to reduce the programmers‟ hardworking on traditional interfaces and resources [1]. This report will focus on the virtual machines for programming languages like Java Virtual Machine (JVM) for Java. Java Virtual Machine Basic Architecture The Java virtual Machine is used to support the Java programming language. There are three steps to execute a Java program: express the Java program in source files, compile the source files into Java class files which contains the bytecodes, run the class files on a Java virtual machine [2]. When execute the program, the Java calls the methods in class files which implement the Java API to access system resources. As the picture shown before, the JVM is flexible to run on different host operation system and show interoperability on programmers‟ perspective. The JVM‟s function is to load class files and execute the code inside [2]. The JVM contains a class loader, which obtain both Java program‟s class files and Java API‟s class files (just require necessary API files) to generate a series of bytecodes. Then the bytecodes are executed in an execution engine, which has three different implementations. The simplest Weil Lai b0919560 Page 3 of 10 engine is to interpret the bytecode one at a time. This kind of interpreter is easy to write and simple to port to a new platform, but it might be slow as there may be lots of local processor instructio