Jikes RVM

Recommended Reading

To learn more about the system, you may want to read:

• Book chapters

  • The strength of metacircular virtual machines: Jikes RVM, appearing in Beautiful Architecture, January 2009. Chapter by Ian Rogers and David Grove, editors Diomidis Spinellis and Georgios Gousios, O’Reilly publishers.

• Papers

  • Historical overview of project ( Apr. 2005)
  • Technical summary of the structure of the system ( Jan. 2000)
  • Writing in Java ( Nov. 1999)

  • MMTk, the memory management system (the listed papers are available via Steve Blackburn’s website)

    • modular design and performance impact:_ Oil and Water? High Performance Garbage Collection in Java with MMTk_, ICSE 2004, May 2004
    • performance study: Myths and Realities: The Performance Impact of Garbage Collection, SIGMETRICS — Performance 2004, June 2004
  • Adaptive optimization system ( Oct. 2000, Nov. 2004)
  • Porting the system to Linux/IA32 ( Aug. 2002)

• Tutorial slides

  • MMTk memory management toolkit (Oct. 2004)
  • Optimizing compiler and adaptive system (Nov. 2002)
  • Complete system (Sept. 2001)
  • General field of dynamic compilation and adaptive optimization (June. 2004)

• User Guide