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Experiences Porting the Jikes RVM to Linux/IA32

Bowen Alpern     Maria Butrico     Anthony Cocchi
Julian Dolby     Stephen Fink     David Grove     Ton Ngo
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, NY, 10598

• Abstract
  
• Introduction
• Overview
• Establishing functionality
  • IA32 Assembler
  • Baseline Compiler
  • Optimizing Compiler
  • Other VM Subsystems
  • VM Conventions
  • Synchronization
  • Operating system issues
  
  
• Improving performance
  • VM Register Conventions
  • Instruction Selection
  • Register Allocation
  • Floating point
  
  
• Conclusions
• Acknowledgments
• Bibliography
• About this document ...