An
airhacks.fm conversation with Ian Rogers (
@Ian Rogers) about:
ZX Spectrum 128K with rubber keys and a burning side grill,
Basic programming competitions,
REM commands as ASCII art,
PC versus
Amiga and
Archimedes era in the UK,
fractal landscape generators for
Wing Commander 4 cut scenes,
Ocean Software in Manchester and the
Head Over Heels game,
Manchester Baby and
Williams tube as the first stored-program computer,
Steve Furber and
origins at the
,
and Pi Research Formula One telemetry,
transputers and embedded PowerPC data loggers,
dynamic binary translation with the Dynamite simulator,
emulation for the Israeli tax system,
to
binary translation for
machines,
and the PowerPC to x86 product that became
,
the Steve Jobs era at Apple,
Spark to Power binary translation and the IBM acquisition of Transitive,
versus ODBC API design observations,
java.util.Vector and java.util.Hashtable synchronization decisions,
StringBuilder array copying overhead from removing synchronization,
languages
,
,
,
just-in-time parallelization from Java bytecode,
from Princeton and the iBerg backend,
as a metacircular Java VM written in Java,
and
by Etienne Gagnon,
port of JikesRVM to Windows,
and
as
precursors,
Bernd Mathiske and the
acquisition by Oracle,
GNU Classpath impact of the
GPL release at
2006,
and
FOSDEM stories,
trace compilation and de-optimization parallels with
,
hardware and concurrent garbage collection,
design influencing
and
,
Gil Tene's telephone exchange mentality for JVM responsiveness,
page unmapping and signal handler memory pressure problems in
,
and Modular,
Google
replacing
,
transactional memory for class initializers in ART,
ELF files and OAT format for ahead-of-time compilation,
WhatsApp bytecode obfuscation breaking the ART verifier,
lock balance verification for speculative lock optimizations,
D8 and
Android compilers,
Goit internal Google bytecode optimizer,
Jeremy Manson and Google's OpenJDK variant,
performance work and perf tooling,
JikesRVM stack trace format making exception-heavy
benchmarks faster than HotSpot,
Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages study comparing Java and Go,