Some other resources

Workshops and conferences

• Workshop on Feedback-Directed and Dynamic Optimization
• Usenix Java VM'01 Research and Technology Symposium
  Usenix Java VM'02 Research and Technology Symposium

Links to related or overlapping courses

• James Smith (University of Wisconsin) ECE 902: Special Topics in Computers Virtual Machine Architectures, Implementations, and Applications. (I found a lot of papers through the readings list for this course.)
• Calvin Lin (University of Texas) CS395T: Binary Editing and Dynamic Compilation (discovered too late to steal from.)
• Renato J. Figueiredo (University of Florida) EEL 6935 - Virtual Computers (discovered too late to steal from.)
• Laurie Hendren Seminar in Advanced Compilation, Fall 2001 A lot of information on compiling Java.
• Reinhard Wilhelm and Helmut Seidl Virtual Machines in Compiler Construction They look at compiling functional languages to byte codes. (We did not cover compiling to byte code.)
• Erik Ernst Interpreters, Compilers, and Virtual Machines Requires background in programming languages. The schedule page.
• Christian Collberg's Courses on Software Security: obfuscation, etc.

Some links pages

• java-virtual-machine.net's links for JVMs, JDKs, and JREs
• Marco Schmidt's links for JDKs, JREs, JVMs, and JITs
• Kaffe's links
• Christian Collberg's and Software Watermarking and Obfuscation Page

Some relevant projects

• Lua language (Looked at for interpreters)
  4.0.1 interpreter ,
  5.0 interpreter
• O'Caml language bytecode interpreter (Looked at for interpreters)

• Sable Java compiler at McGill (Looked at Java specific optimizations in their interpreter) The SableVM Project
• Jikes RVM at IBM , Papers here
• IBM's other Java Jit compiler , Publications here.
• Latte Java JIT Compiler (Looked at register allocation)
• Cacao Java JIT compiler (Compared old and "new" designs if JIT compiler.)
• Kaffe (Did not look at in course, but kept running into references as a starting point for writing Java JIT compilers.)

• DynamoRIO An adaptive optimization and code introspection system

• OpenJit (A Java JIT. Did not look at in course)
• shuJIT (A Java JIT. Did not look at in course)

• Basilisk II (A 680x0 to x86 JIT. Did not look at in course)