Fast Machine-Adaptable Dynamic Binary Translation

Binary translation is the process of translating machine code from one instruction set architecture to another. It can be done statically or dynamically, i.e., on the fly. Most binary translation systems have been tailored to a specific source-target architecture combination. There are currently three published machine-adaptable binary translation systems, one of which is dynamic. Because it uses several intermediate representations to go from source to target code, its translation overhead is very high. We present a machine-adaptable dynamic binary translation system currently in development which uses no intermediate representation at all, enabling it to translate very fast, while still producing good code.