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Ob ject Allo cation and Dynamic Compilation in MultithreadSmalltalk Kazuhiro Ogata and Norihisa Doi Department of Computer Science, Keio University Keywords Smalltalk , m ultipro cessor , Multithread- In this pap er, rst, two techniques which improve Multi- Smalltalk , dynamic compilation, ob ject allo cation . threadSmalltalk are explained. One is for having multiple pro cesses execute dynamic compilation in parallel, and the MultithreadSmalltalk is a High-P erformance Smalltalk sys- other is for allo cating multiple ob jects in ob ject memory tem eciently running on a shared-memory multipro cessor. in parallel. Next, the p erformance of MultithreadSmall- The key concept is that a Smalltalk pro cess is combined talk is evaluated. The shared-memory multiprocessor used with a Mach thread and is executed as a thread. This real- in this research is an OMRON LUNA-88K which has four izes concurrent execution. Two techniques are adopted for MC88100 RISC micropro cessors, and uses a Mach 2.5 op- impro ving MultithreadSmalltalk. One is for ha ving multi- erating system. ple pro cesses execute dynamic compilation in parallel, and the other is for allo cating multiple ob jects in ob ject mem- The remainder of this pap er is organized as follows. First, ory. These techniques improve the sp eed of execution by the original version of MultithreadSmalltalk is describ ed. 5% to 25%. Next, the two techniques which improve MultithreadSmall- talk are shown. Last, the eect of the two adopted tech-