Predicting Software Component Performance: On the Relevance of Parameters for Benchmarking Bytecode and APIs

Performance prediction of component-based software systems is needed for systematic evaluation of design decisions, but also when an application's execution system is changed. Often, the entire application cannot be benchmarked in advance on its new execution system due to high costs or because some required services cannot be provided there. In this case, performance of bytecode instructions or other atomic building blocks of components can be used for performance prediction. However, the performance of bytecode instructions depends not only on the execution system they use, but also on their parameters, which are not considered by most existing research.