PROXIMITY-BASED ADDRESSING FOR SUPPORTING IN-PLACE EXECUTION IN VIRTUAL MACHINES

摘要

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates performing proximity-based addressing in a platform-independent virtual machine. During execution of a program on the platform-independent virtual machine, the system receives an instruction and a parameter associated with the instruction that can be used to generate a reference to a program element associated with the instruction. Next, the system examines information encoded within the parameter to determine a proximity of the reference, and then uses the parameter to generate the reference to the program element, wherein the proximity of the reference determines how the reference is generated from the parameter.