Category Archives: Trace Compilation

We spent the 2nd day today with the Maxine VM group at Sun Labs to get familiar with the new meta-circular Java VM they are building. Maxine is completely implemented in Java, and makes extensive use of the Java language. … Continue reading →

We finally managed to publish a paper on CellVM, our Java VM running Java threads on the Synergistic Processing Units (SPUs) of the Cell Processor. The paper will be presented at the 2008 Workshop on Cell Systems and Applications.

Michael B. and I met yesterday with Brendan and a bunch of other people from Mozilla to talk about the integration of a tracing engine (Tamarin) into Spidermonkey (the JavaScript VM in Firefox). Spidermonkey has been highly optimized over the … Continue reading →