4K views · Jul 7, 2016 · 1:15:09 · 2 HN recommenders · 6 mentions · discussed 2017–2021
Cliff Click, author of HotSpot's JIT compiler, shares hard-won advice for people writing virtual machines at the VMSS16 workshop. Topics include interpreters, JITs and performance lessons.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN recommends it, and Cliff Click's talks in general, as practical wisdom from someone who built HotSpot and worked on Azul's VMs.
“I strongly recommend following and listening to videos by Cliff Click who wrote HotSpot and worked on Azul and other VMs.”HN comment, 2021
“highly recommend Cliff Click's talks (any of them)”
Hard-won VM writing lessons from Cliff Click
Very poor, there's no mention of continuation style passing interpreters. If anyone's curious about tales from the battlefield, highly recommend Cliff Click's talks (any of them) [1] [1] this video
“I highly recommend folks to view this talk by the venerable Cliff Click”
VM-writing advice on interpreters and speedups from raw assembly
I highly recommend folks to view this talk by the venerable Cliff Click called "Bits of Advice For the VM Writer" [1] Of particular interest are Continuation Style Passing Interpreters [2] and how much of a speedup you can get by going to raw assembly. The talk has lessons Cliff learned from his years on the JVM but those can be adapted easily to other runtimes. [1] this video [2] link
“I strongly recommend following and listening to videos by Cliff Click who wrote HotSpot and worked on Azul and other VMs.”
Talks from the author of HotSpot on VMs
I strongly recommend following and listening to videos by Cliff Click who wrote HotSpot and worked on Azul and other VMs. Cliff also has Coffee Compiler Club sessions on Fridays. - link - this video
“here are a few of his videos that I like.”
One of several Cliff Click talks on JIT and VMs
I'm also a fan of Cliff and other Rice alumni; here are a few of his videos that I like. [0] The Sea of Nodes and the HotSpot JIT [1] A JVM Does That? [2] A Crash Course in Modern Hardware [3] Bits of Advice for the VM Writer [0] link [1] link [2] link [3] this video
“Hotspot had to create fair locks in user-space because kernel provided locks weren't adequate.”
Notes HotSpot built user-space fair locks because kernel locks fell short
He doesn't give a lot of details, but somewhere in the first 20 minutes of this talk (probably 15 minutes in), Cliff Click says that Hotspot had to create fair locks in user-space because kernel provided locks weren't adequate. this video
“Thank you for the video, very interesting.”
Gives the timestamp for the lock discussion
Thank you for the video, very interesting. The time for what you mentioned is here: this video (from 18:24 to 24:00)
