Just to let you know that IBM Research has just released the Jikes
Research Virtual Machine (RVM) on developerworks:
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/projects/jikesrvm
The RVM is designed to execute Java programs that are typically used
in research on fundamental virtual machine design issues. It will
provide academic and research communities with a flexible testbed to
prototype new virtual machine technologies and experiment with
different design alternatives. It runs on the AIX/PowerPC,
Linux/PowerPC, and Linux/IA-32 platforms, and exhibits
industry-strength performance for many benchmark programs on the first
two of these platforms.
The Jikes RVM includes the latest VM technologies for dynamic
compilation, adaptive optimization, garbage collection, thread
scheduling, and synchronization. The Jikes RVM is implemented in the
Java programming language.
It was originally hoped to release the project using the name
"Jalapeno" that was internally used during its development. However,
it turns out some company has a claim on this name, so we decided to
use "Jikes", as we have done before for projects from the Software
Technology department here at IBM Research.
The project has no direct link to the Jikes Compiler Project other
than requiring the Jikes compiler for its compilation. Indeed, this is the
reason Jikes supports the the "+K" option.
dave
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