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 slides here.
Contributions are very welcome!
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| Emoji | Represents |
|---|---|
| 💻 | Blog post |
| 📄 | White paper |
| 📝 | Code |
| 🎤 | Podcast |
| 🎥 | Slides |
- 🎥 Dynamic Compilation and Adaptive Optimization in Virtual Machines - Stephen Fink, David Grove, and Michael Hind
- 📄 On-stack replacement - Soman and Krintz
- 📄 Optimizing Dynamically-Typed Object-Oriented Languages With Polymorphic Inline Caches - Hölzle, Chambers and Ungar
- 📄 Adaptive optimization for self: reconciling high performance with exploratory programming - Hölzle
- 📄 A Survey of Adaptive Optimization in Virtual Machines - Arnold, Fink, Grove, Hind and Sweeney
- 📄 A Simple Graph-Based Intermediate Representation - Click
- 📄 Combining Analyses, Combining Optimizations - Click
- 💻 A tour of V8 garbage collection - Jay Conrod
- V8's compilers resources - Thorsten Lorenz
- V8's garbage collector resources - Thorsten Lorenz
- 🎥 TurboFan JIT Design - Ben L. Titzer
- 💻 Sea of Nodes - Fedor Indutny
- 💻 Digging into TurboFan JIT - V8's blog
- 💻 Jank Busters Part One - V8's blog
- 💻 JavaScript and V8’s TurboFan - Ariya Hidayat
- 📄 Instrumenting V8 to Measure the Efficacy of Dynamic Optimizations on Production Code - Maass and Shafer
- 💻 V8 resources - Vyacheslav Egorov
- 💻 Introducing FTL JIT - Webkit blog
- 💻 Introducing B3 JIT compiler - Webkit blog
- 📝 List of performance hint descriptions - ChakraCore's repository
- 🎤 Chakra, Microsoft's Open Source JavaScript Engine - JavaScriptAir
- ChakraCore Architecture overview - ChakraCore's wiki
- 💻 Compacting Garbage Collection in SpiderMonkey - Mozilla Hacks
- 💻 SpiderMonkey Internals - MDN
- 💻 PICing on JavaScript for fun and profit - Chris Leary
- 💻 Back to basic: Series on dynamic memory management - MSDN
- Memory Management Reference
- 📄 A non-recursive list compacting algorithm - Cheney
- 📄 Generation Scavenging - Ungar
- 📄 Reconciling Responsiveness with Performance in Pure Object-Oriented Languages - Hölzle and Ungar
- 📄 Garbage Collection in an Uncooperative Environment - Boehm
- 📄 Garbage Collection with Ambiguous Roots - Bartlett
- 📄 Quantifying the Performance of Garbage Collection vs. Explicit Memory Management - Hertz and Berger
- 📄 'Infant Mortality' and Generational Garbage Collection - Baker
- 📄 Fast Conservative Garbage Collection - Shahriyar, Blackburn and McKinley