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Language Run-time Systems: an Overview Belikov, Evgenij Run-time Systems Virtual Machines Adaptive Policy Control The proliferation of high-level programming languages with advanced language features and the need for portability across increasingly heterogeneous and hierarchical architectures require a sophisticated run-time system to manage program execution and available resources. Additional benefits include isolated execution of untrusted code and the potential for dynamic optimisation, among others. This paper provides a high-level overview of language run-time systems with a focus on execution models, support for concurrency and parallelism, memory management, and communication, whilst briefly mentioning synchronisation, monitoring, and adaptive policy control. Two alternative approaches to run-time system design are presented and several challenges for future research are outlined. References to both seminal and recent work are provided. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik Evgenij Belikov 2015 Is Part Of OASIcs, Volume 49, 2015 Imperial College Computing Student Workshop (ICCSW 2015) InProceedings Text doc-type:ResearchArticle publishedVersion application/pdf doi:10.4230/OASIcs.ICCSW.2015.3 urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-54753 https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ICCSW.2015.3 eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode