Running VM State - Modification, Complexity, Cleanliness

[Philippe Laporte]

Hi,
     you can find a pretty good description of Sun's VM implementation in the
following book. Sun is "very proud" and so will discuss/disclose almost
anything.

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/performance/


Kaffe is not very much documented. You can find some description of some of
its parts at

http://www.CS.McGill.CA/~laporte/kaffereport/report.html

Regards,


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Nathan Meyers wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 07:08:24AM -0800, Steve Sansha wrote:
> > Also: Does the Virtual Machine allow self-modifying
> > code?  I'm sure it's possible for the bytecode to
> > create a new byte[] and use custom-built classloader
> > to actually load it, but is their an easier
> > alternative?
> > (I'm guessing it's not, since it's a type-safe
> > language)
>
> You may find a broken VM implementation that lets you do such a thing, but
> Java's pretty strict about access to memory. Writing into space occupied
> by loaded bytecodes isn't in spec. And, with the possibility that the code
> has been JITted, changing bytecodes on the fly would be very bad news.
>
> Custom classloaders are easy to write - there really is no "easier
> alternative". Loading your own manufactured bytecodes requires an almost
> trivial subclass of ClassLoader.
>
> > Also: I'm sending this to Kaffe because it seems to be
> > the best-documented, best-spirited VM... But just so I
> >
> > know, are their any documents (except the in-source
> > code documentation) for Sun's reference
> > implementation?  I've looked around and can't find
> > any.
>
> Sun publishes detailed specs about the language, the JVM, the classfile
> format, and such. As for details on JVM implementation - I doubt it. And
> that's a moving target anyway.
>
> Nathan
>
> >
> > (Thanks * 1,000,000)  -Steve
> >
> >
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