1st Edition

Advanced Design and Implementation of Virtual Machines

By Xiao-Feng Li Copyright 2017
464 Pages
by CRC Press

464 Pages 50 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

464 Pages 50 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Along with the increasingly important runtime engines pervasive in our daily-life computing, there is a strong demand from the software community for a solid presentation on the design and implementation of modern virtual machines, including the Java virtual machine, JavaScript engine and Android execution engine. The community expects to see not only formal algorithm description, but also... Read more

Basics of Virtual Machines: Introduction of the Virtual Machine. Inside of a Virtual Machine. Data Structures in a Virtual Machine.



Design of Virtual Machines: Design of Execution Engine. Design of Garbage Collection. Design of Threading.



Supports in Virtual Machine: Native Interface. Stack Unwinding. Garbage Collection Support. Runtime-Helpers. Exception-Throwing. Finalization and Weak References. Modularity Design of VM.



Optimizations of Garbage Collection: Optimizing Garbage Collection for Throughput. Optimizing Garbage Collection for Scalability. Optimizing Garbage Collection for Responsiveness. Concurrent Moving Collection.



Optimizations of Thread Interactions: Optimizing Monitor Performance. Hardware Transactional Memory (HTM)-Based Design.

Biography

Xiao-Feng Li has been working with Intel for 15 years, with extensive technical experience in parallel computing, operating system, compiler and runtime technologies. He was the major contributor to the JVM of Apache Harmony and the creator of a micro-kernel VM that later became Intel Micro Runtime. Xiao-Feng built and led a software lab on runtime technologies in Intel and published 20 academic papers in the related areas. Xiao-Feng holds a PhD degree in computer science.