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It'd be interesting to learn more about what you meant by "there are much better ways to represent Java than bytecodes". I know you don't do JVM stuff anymore
by sievebrain 10y ago
It'd be interesting to learn more about what you meant by "there are much better ways to represent Java than bytecodes".
I know you don't do JVM stuff anymore but perhaps one day you could do a talk on how you'd design the JVM differently if you could go back and do it all again.
- cliffc 10y agoRight when Java was taking off, there were a bunch of research proposals for better over-the-wire executable formats (mostly funded by microsoft). Designs where you could convert the bytecodes to machine code as fast as L1 could take it with sane 1st-level-JIT code quality. And also have safety, and enough type info the use a 2nd-level JIT for really hot code.
- sievebrain 10y agoAh so you meant "java bytecodes", not bytecodes in general. Perhaps like pre-calculating register allocation and such? I'd like to read about these sorts of proposals, do you recall the names of the papers by any chance?