Scala? ≡ Javamod JVM On the Performance Characteristics of Scala Programs on the Java Virtual Machine

In recent years, the Java Virtual Machine has become an at-tractive target for a multitude of programming languages, one of which is Scala. But while the Scala compiler emits plain Java bytecode, the performance characteristics of Scala pro-grams are not necessarily similar to those of Java programs. We therefore propose to complement a popular Java bench-mark suite with several Scala programs and to subsequently evaluate their performance using VM-independent metrics. 1 Towards a Scala Benchmark Suite Previous investigations into the performance of Scala programs have been mostly restricted to micro-benchmarking. (The language’s implementers themselves per-form a number of so-called shoot-outs, each testing a par-ticular language feature) While undeniably useful to the im