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Techniques used in Hotspot compilation

Hi, I have been looking for some documentation or articles w.r.t what exactly this technology involves and unfortunately have not had much luck. The only source i have is the IcedTea project which requires I pour through source code to make a determination of what these techniques involve and whether they are applicable to the situations I am interested in. Does anyone know of resources which describe the basic motivation/ideas and algorithms that "hide" behind the hotspot umbrella? If anyone here had some insight into these technologies I would appreciate it.

Thanks in advance,

By Carter Cheng at 2009-10-18 15:20 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 5320 reads

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Look up "trace trees" and

Look up "trace trees" and other papers on trace-based JIT, ie. YETI.

By naasking at Sun, 2009-10-18 17:54 | login or register to post comments

Thanks I will take a look.

Thanks I will take a look.

By Carter Cheng at Wed, 2009-10-21 18:40 | login or register to post comments

HotSpot

I'm confused as to what exactly you mean by the "hotspot umbrella". HotSpot is a trademark used by Sun to refer to two Java JIT compilers, HotSpot client and HotSpot server.

Here is a masters about HotSpot client: http://www.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/Research/Papers/Wimmer04Master/Wimmer04Master.pdf
Here is a paper about HotSpot server: http://www.usenix.org/events/jvm01/full_papers/paleczny/paleczny.pdf

By slava at Wed, 2009-10-21 23:14 | login or register to post comments

HotSpot Internals Wiki

There are a pile of links on the HotSpot Internals Wiki and on the OpenJDK HotSpot group website.

By Kevin Krouse at Thu, 2009-10-22 22:44 | login or register to post comments