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The paper is devoted to the problem of portability of applications between different software-hardware platforms. A survey of approaches to solving this problem is given, and analysis of their advantages and disadvantages is presented. Application domains of the existing approaches are discussed.

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  1. Institute of System Programming, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Solzhenitsyna 25, Moscow, 109004, Russia

    D. V. Silakov & A. V. Khoroshilov

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Original Russian Text © D.V. Silakov, A.V. Khoroshilov, 2011, published in Programmirovanie, 2011, Vol. 37, No. 1.

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Silakov, D.V., Khoroshilov, A.V. Ensuring portability of software. Program Comput Soft 37, 41–47 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0361768811010051

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