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It's much more complicated and a much lower on the cost-benefit totem-pole than... 1. Inlining 2. Compiling bytecode for a specific set of input and outp

It's much more complicated and a much lower on the cost-benefit totem-pole than... 1. Inlining 2. Compiling bytecode for a specific set of input and output types 3. Object Recycling 4. Runtime-compiling to machine code Things like that. edit: I may be wrong. I'd love to see an example of a VM that implements what you're thinking.

dr_zoidberg 9y ago
While the name of the talk implies it's a generally-speaking-talk, Click goes into a lot of detail of how the JVM works in his "A Crash Course in Modern Hardware" presentation[0]. I saw it a while ago, but I think he does mention those things. Of course that's the one I saw and remember, but you could probably find another presentation in which he goes into much better detail about the JVM and its inner workings. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFgxAFdxYAQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFgxAFdxYAQ