Task: Question Answering
Input (English): Context: The OW2 Consortium (formed in January 2007 from the merger of the "ObjectWeb Consortium" and "Orientware") is a not-for-profit, international consortium mainly devoted to producing open-source middleware, EAI, e-business, clustering, grid computing. It was founded by INRIA, Groupe Bull, and France Télécom. OW2 aims at developing high-quality open-source components for distributed applications (Web applications, grid computing, clusters, business integration, nomadic systems, etc.)., Bytecode, also termed portable code or p-code, is a form of instruction set designed for efficient execution by a software interpreter. Unlike human-readable source code, bytecodes are compact numeric codes, constants, and references (normally numeric addresses) that encode the result of compiler parsing and semantic analysis of things like type, scope, and nesting depths of program objects. They thus allow much better performance than interpreting source code directly.
The name bytecode stems from instruction sets that have one-byte opcodes followed by optional parameters. Intermediate representations such as bytecode may be output by programming language implementations to ease interpretation, or it may be used to reduce hardware and operating system dependence by allowing the same code to run cross-platform, on different devices. Bytecode may often be either directly executed on a virtual machine (a p-code machine i.e., interpreter), or it may be further compiled into machine code for better performance., The ASM library is a project of the OW2 Consortium . It provides a simple API for decomposing , modifying , and recomposing binary Java classes ( i.e. bytecode ) . The project was originally conceived and developed by Eric Bruneton . ASM is Java - centric at present , and does not currently have a backend that exposes other bytecode implementations ( such as .NET bytecode , Python bytecode , etc. ) . The ASM name does not mean anything : it is just a reference to the asm keyword of C , which allows some functions to be implemented in assembly language ., In computer programming, a p-code machine, or portable code machine is a virtual machine designed to execute p-code (the assembly language of a hypothetical CPU). This term is applied both generically to all such machines (such as the Java Virtual Machine and MATLAB precompiled code), and to specific implementations, the most famous being the p-Machine of the Pascal-P system, particularly the UCSD Pascal implementation., Subject: objectweb asm, Relation: platform, Options: (A) java (B) java virtual machine (C) web
Output (English): java virtual machine