This is a list of resources I used to learn about virtual machines in general, from an architecture point of view to optimizations and garbage collection strategies. I've also put together some parts into a talk format, you can see the video here (slides).
Contributions are very welcome!
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Emoji | Represents |
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π | Blog post |
π | White paper |
π» | Code |
π€ | Podcast |
π₯ | Slides |
π | Documentation |
- π₯ Dynamic Compilation and Adaptive Optimization in Virtual Machines - Stephen Fink, David Grove, and Michael Hind
- π On-stack replacement - Soman and Krintz
- π Optimizing Dynamically-Typed Object-Oriented Languages With Polymorphic Inline Caches - HΓΆlzle, Chambers and Ungar
- π Adaptive optimization for self: reconciling high performance with exploratory programming - HΓΆlzle
- π A Survey of Adaptive Optimization in Virtual Machines - Arnold, Fink, Grove, Hind and Sweeney
- π A Simple Graph-Based Intermediate Representation - Click
- π Combining Analyses, Combining Optimizations - Click
- π A Brief History of Just-In-Time - Aycock
- π A tour of V8 garbage collection - Jay Conrod
- V8 perf - Thorsten Lorenz
- π₯ TurboFan JIT Design - Ben L. Titzer
- π Sea of Nodes - Fedor Indutny
- π Digging into TurboFan JIT - V8's blog
- π Jank Busters Part One - V8's blog
- π JavaScript and V8βs TurboFan - Ariya Hidayat
- π Instrumenting V8 to Measure the Efficacy of Dynamic Optimizations on Production Code - Maass and Shafer
- π V8 resources - Vyacheslav Egorov
- π V8: Behind the Scenes (November Edition) - Benedikt Meurer
- π The story of a V8 performance cliff in React - Benedikt Meurer and Mathias Bynens
- π Introducing FTL JIT - Webkit blog
- π Introducing B3 JIT compiler - Webkit blog
- π Bare Bones Backend - Webkit Documentation
- π B3 Assembly IR - Webkit Documentation
- π B3 IR - Webkit Documentation
- π FTL JIT - Webkit Documentation
- π Inside javascriptcore's low-level interpreter - Andy Wingo's blog
- π» List of performance hint descriptions - ChakraCore's repository
- π€ Chakra, Microsoft's Open Source JavaScript Engine - JavaScriptAir
- π ChakraCore Architecture overview - ChakraCore's wiki
- π Compacting Garbage Collection in SpiderMonkey - Mozilla Hacks
- π SpiderMonkey Internals - MDN
- π IonMonkey: Evil on your behalf - Mozilla's JavaScript blog
- π IonMonkey: Optimizing Away - Mozilla's JavaScript blog
- π The Unofficial Incomplete Spidermonkey Bibliography - Matthew Gaudet
- Introducing the JetStream Benchmark Suite
- Sunspider
- Octane
- Kraken
- Dromaeo
- AreWeFastYet?
- Web Tooling Benchmark
- π PICing on JavaScript for fun and profit - Chris Leary
- π On-the-fly Garbage Collection: An Exercise in Cooperation - Dijkstra, Lamport, Martin, Scholten, and Steffens
- π Back to basic: Series on dynamic memory management - MSDN
- Memory Management Reference
- π A non-recursive list compacting algorithm - Cheney
- π Generation Scavenging - Ungar
- π Reconciling Responsiveness with Performance in Pure Object-Oriented Languages - HΓΆlzle and Ungar
- π Garbage Collection in an Uncooperative Environment - Boehm
- π Garbage Collection with Ambiguous Roots - Bartlett
- π Quantifying the Performance of Garbage Collection vs. Explicit Memory Management - Hertz and Berger
- π 'Infant Mortality' and Generational Garbage Collection - Baker
- π Fast Conservative Garbage Collection - Shahriyar, Blackburn and McKinley
- π Introduction to SpiderMonkey exploitation - Axel "0vercl0k" Souchet
- π Attacking JavaScript Engines: A case study of JavaScriptCore and CVE-2016-4622 - Samuel GroΓ
- π Weaponization of a JavaScriptCore Vulnerability - RET2's blog
- π Don't Follow The Masses: Bug Hunting in JavaScript Engines - Dimitri Fourny and Moritz Jodeit
- π A journey into IonMonkey: root-causing CVE-2019-9810 - Axel "0vercl0k" Souchet
- π Introduction to TurboFan -Jeremy Fetiveau