Speculative multithreading (SpMT), also known as thread level speculation (TLS), is a dynamic parallelization technique that relies on out-of-order execution, dependence buffering, and misspeculation rollback to achieve speedup of sequential programs on multiprocessors. A large number of hardware studies have shown good results for irregular programs, as have a smaller number of software studies in the context of loop level speculation for unmanaged languages.In this thesis we explore software method level speculation for Java. A software environment means that speculation will run on existing multiprocessors, at the cost of extra overhead. Method level speculation (MLS) is a kind of SpMT / TLS that creates threads on method invocation, exe...