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Jul 08, 2016
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A JVM Does That? (2011) [pdf]
There's another talk that you might want to watch if you liked these slides:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzzABBxo44g Bits of advice for VM writers.
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⬐ checker659What are some important books / seminal papers on VM design that every starting VM writers should read?⬐ hyperpapeThis is a really impressive video: there's a lot about the interface between VM and native code that I hadn't thought about.Another small thing that jumped out at me: Click said that if he were to write another VM, he wouldn't use a memory-unsafe language. His throwaway comment was "Java is fast enough."
⬐ pronHotSpot's next-gen JIT[1], which will be available as a simple plugin in Java 9[2], is written completely in Java. True, it is "only" the JIT -- not the bootstrap interpreter or the GC (no need to throw away all the work) -- but it works extremely well. It is one of the most impressive advances in compiler technology of the decade.[1]: https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/Graal/Publications+and...