Parallelizing the Jikes

Incorporating Better Register Allocation into Jikes

In dynamically compiled code, it is important not only that the compiler produce fast code, but also that the compiler itself costs little overhead to the runtime application. These two competing goals motivate the importance of accurate cost-benefit analysis for any optimizations performed in a dynamic compilation system. The Jikes RVM, which performs Just-In-Time (JIT) compilation of Java byt...

JikesNODE and PearColator: A Jikes RVM Operating System and Legacy Code Execution Environment

JikesNODE is an effort to create a Java operating system integrating the open source projects of the Jikes Research Virtual Machine (RVM) and the Java New Operating System Design Effort (JNODE), respectively a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and Java operating system. PearColator is a novel use of the Jikes RVM to execute not its intended Java bytecodes, but instead PowerPC binaries. Our endeavours ...

Designing a Distributed Jvm on a Cluster

dJVM provides a distributed Java virtual Machine (JVM) on a cluster. It hides the distributed nature of the underlying machine from a Java application by presenting a single system image (SSI) to that application. dJVM is based on the Jikes RVM [Alpern et al, 1999] (a JVM written entirely in Java) and is the first distributed implementation of the Jikes RVM. This provides a framework for explor...

JikesRVM: Internal Mechanisms Study and Garbage Collection with MMTk

High Level Language Virtual Machines is a core topic of interest for the researchers who are into virtual execution environments. As an open source virtual machine released to 16 universities, as early as 2001, Jikes RVM has been a major drive for many researches. While working on this project, we studied the JIT compilation of Jikes RVM as well as the Garbage Collection (GC) which is handled b...

Experiences Porting the Jikes RVM to Linux/IA32