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This discussion concerns my article about the Hotspot Virtual Machine and how that impacts Java program design lore.

Bill Venners

• Policy class versus ProtectionDomain class - vaduganathan June 15, 2001 at 9:44 AM (0)
• what is hotspot - Muhammad Abid May 29, 2001 at 6:41 AM (0)
• Compilation & execution - E.V.Niranjan. June 19, 2000 at 12:35 AM (0)
• Know of any benchmark speed tests on HotSpot? - Chris Clark 31 Mar 1999, 10:12 PM (2)
  • aaas - y j kim September 08, 2000 at 9:41 AM (0)
  • JAVA rules - voltaire SevuganRaman April 20, 2000 at 8:32 PM (0)
• Java programs in Hotspot maybe faster than C++programs? - Jinlei 03 Feb 1999, 2:05 PM (1)
  • Give brief about Hotspot virtual machine - milind badhe January 17, 2001 at 6:13 AM (0)
• HotSpot Release Date - Farley Caesar 07 Jan 1999, 1:52 PM (0)
• Release Date of HotSpot - Ismael Juma 25 Aug 1998, 7:38 AM (1)
  • Thanks - Bill Venners 02 Sep 1998, 5:35 PM (0)
• Why is JIT compilation considered dynamic ? - Mustafa Ozgen 28 Jun 1998, 11:28 AM (1)
  • JIT is just-in-time *static* compilation - Bill Venners 29 Jun 1998, 9:25 PM (0)
• HotSpot on Merced looks nice... - Cagatay Kavukcuoglu 19 Jun 1998, 1:56 AM (2)
  • Je suis d'accord avec toi - Mustafa Kavukcuoglu April 19, 2000 at 2:20 PM (1)
    • D'Accord - Bill Venners April 19, 2000 at 6:33 PM (0)
• Inlining details - Chris Smith 16 Jun 1998, 6:19 PM (2)
  • All the details I have - Bill Venners 19 Jun 1998, 6:46 PM (1)
    • Some pseudocode - Bill Venners 24 Jun 1998, 11:28 PM (0)
• JIT really 3 to 10 times slower than C - Tim Josling 30 May 1998, 5:50 PM (5)
  • article - darik May 17, 2001 at 2:52 AM (0)
  • Just a rough estimate on my part - Bill Venners 19 Jun 1998, 6:19 PM (3)
    • JIT Performance - Michael Gogins 26 Mar 1999, 8:57 AM (2)
      • Java Synthesizer - malcolm Bailey June 18, 2001 at 11:24 AM (0)
      • gr8 work - rakhee December 14, 2000 at 9:55 AM (0)
• Still hype... - Gerry Quinn 30 May 1998, 5:28 AM (1)
  • Yup, still hype - Bill Venners 01 Jun 1998, 12:02 PM (0)
• Hotspot profiling time - Neville Franks 29 May 1998, 4:52 PM (2)
  • Tricky Time Tradeoff - Bill Venners 01 Jun 1998, 11:00 AM (1)
    • prog eating more CPU time. - gopi June 01, 2000 at 5:00 AM (0)
• Optimization Lore - Dave Trissel 28 May 1998, 10:53 AM (2)
  • Re: Optimization Lore - Chris Smith 16 Jun 1998, 6:25 PM (1)
    • Code size affects locality of reference. - Jonathan Brumley 06 Jul 1998, 3:26 PM (0)
• Deployment format? - Fred Klingener 28 May 1998, 6:35 AM (1)
  • Don't know whether we know yet - Bill Venners 28 May 1998, 9:32 AM (0)
• Has anybody tried Hotspot yet? - Daniel Brunton 27 May 1998, 2:08 PM (4)
  • Only Licensees? - Bill Venners 27 May 1998, 3:28 PM (3)
    • JavaOne Demo of HotSpot - Mike Funk 16 Jun 1998, 7:33 AM (2)
      • was this a real application? or a carefully-chosen demo? - Jonathan Brumley 06 Jul 1998, 3:16 PM (0)
      • JavaOne Demo of HotSpot - Peter Bonney 16 Jun 1998, 11:46 AM (0)
• Making sure this works - Bill Venners 27 May 1998, 8:21 AM (4)
  • java - pawan kumar September 04, 2000 at 11:09 AM (0)
  • Release Date - Ismael 27 May 1998, 8:53 AM (2)
    • Hotspot at "end of year" - Bill Venners 27 May 1998, 3:24 PM (1)
      • Beta at "end of summer"? - Bill Venners 27 May 1998, 3:31 PM (0)