Wire-formats revisited: does the size alone really matter?

Denis N. Antonioli

doi:10.1117/12.432995

12 July 2001 Wire-formats revisited: does the size alone really matter?

Denis N. Antonioli

Proceedings Volume 4521, Java/Jini Technologies; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.432995
Event: ITCom 2001: International Symposium on the Convergence of IT and Communications, 2001, Denver, CO, United States

Abstract

In distributed and in embedded systems, the size of the application is frequently a critical measurement. In many cases, a smaller size brings huge, tangible benefits and special formats, known as wire-formats, are specifically developed to minimize the footprint of applications. In a typical wire-format, very complicated transformations are applied to yield the smallest possible size, and the compressed application must undergo a time-consuming decoding phase before its execution. This article argues that decoding is a very important contributor to the overall performance of a wire-format and belongs to the evaluation of new formats. The article presents a model that considers both the transmission time and the decompression time to qualify wire-formats. It validates experimentally this model and compares with it two experimental wire-formats for compiled Java applications and the Java archive format.

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Denis N. Antonioli "Wire-formats revisited: does the size alone really matter?", Proc. SPIE 4521, Java/Jini Technologies, (12 July 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.432995

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