VMIL 2026 – Preliminary Table of Contents

18th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages (VMIL 2026)

Frontmatter

Papers

Improving ART Garbage Collection Performance through Object-Lifetime-Profile-Based Allocation Control
Hiroki Yamada, Takeshi Kamiyama, Masato Oguchi, and Saneyasu Yamaguchi
(Kogakuin University, Japan; Nagasaki University, Japan; Ochanomizu University, Japan)

Publisher's Version Article: splashws26vmilmain-p9-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3840562.3844968

Support Local Variables
Maxwell Bernstein, Takashi Kokubun, Aaron Patterson, Si Xing (Alan) Wu, and Kevin Menard
(Shopify, USA)

Publisher's Version Article: splashws26vmilmain-p43-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3840562.3844969

The Event Loop That Wasn’t: What Happens to a Reactive System When You Remove JavaScript
C. Bergström
(24x AI Research, Singapore)

Publisher's Version Article: splashws26vmilmain-p88-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3840562.3844970

Bridging the Performance Gap: JVM Optimization for Semantically Identical Kotlin and Java Loops
Sota Shinagawa, Takeshi Kamiyama, Masato Oguchi, and Saneyasu Yamaguchi
(Kogakuin University, Japan; Nagasaki University, Japan; Ochanomizu University, Japan)

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What Do R Benchmarks Measure: Toward a Performance-Characterized Benchmark Suite for R
Matěj Kocourek, Filip Říha, Oliver Tušla, Pierre Donat-Bouillud, Filip Křikava, and Jan Vitek
(Charles University, Czech Republic; Czech Technical University, Czech Republic)

Publisher's Version Article: splashws26vmilmain-p98-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3840562.3844972

Appendix: This document is the supplementary material for What Do R Benchmarks Measure. It holds the per-category breakdown of Section 4.1 of the paper: where Figure 5 there plots the speedups against the three unions of categories, Figure S1 below does the same for every individual category, for each of the three compilers. ...

Beyond Java 6: Reviving Reflection-Aware Static Analysis for Modern JVMs
Gauravsingh Sisodia, Poorna Teja Pasala, Aditya Anand, and Manas Thakur
(Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, India; Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)

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