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Cliff Click @ VMSS16: Bits of Advice For the VM Writer

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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.

HN recommends it, and Cliff Click's talks in general, as practical wisdom from someone who built HotSpot and worked on Azul's VMs.

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@filereaper2017 · in “The Structure and Performance of Efficient Interpreters [pdf]”

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] [VIDEO]

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@hyperpape2017 · in “On mutex performance and WTF::Lock”

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. [VIDEO]

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@foepys2017 · in “On mutex performance and WTF::Lock”

Thank you for the video, very interesting. The time for what you mentioned is here: [VIDEO] (from 18:24 to 24:00)

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@filereaper2019 · in “Building Fast Interpreters in Rust”

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] [VIDEO] [2] [LINK]

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@tjalfi2021 · in “Intel to disable TSX by default on more CPUs with new microcode”

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] [VIDEO]

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@filereaper2021 · in “Ask HN: Best Books on the JVM?”

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] - [VIDEO]

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