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
ARM origins at the
University of Manchester,
Cosworth and Pi Research Formula One telemetry,
transputers and embedded PowerPC data loggers,
dynamic binary translation with the Dynamite simulator,
ICL 2900 emulation for the Israeli tax system,
MIPS to
Itanium binary translation for
SGI machines,
Transitive Corporation and the PowerPC to x86 product that became
Apple Rosetta,
the Steve Jobs era at Apple,
Spark to Power binary translation and the IBM acquisition of Transitive,
JDBC versus ODBC API design observations,
java.util.Vector and java.util.Hashtable synchronization decisions,
StringBuilder array copying overhead from removing synchronization,
DARPA HPCS languages
Fortress,
Chapel,
X10,
just-in-time parallelization from Java bytecode,
LCC compiler from Princeton and the iBerg backend,
JikesRVM as a metacircular Java VM written in Java,
GNU Classpath and
Sable VM by Etienne Gagnon,
Apache Harmony port of JikesRVM to Windows,
Maxwell and
Maxine VMS as
GraalVM precursors,
Bernd Mathiske and the
Sun acquisition by Oracle,
GNU Classpath impact of the
openJDK GPL release at
FOSDEM 2006,
Mark Wielaard and
Rémi Forax FOSDEM stories,
trace compilation and de-optimization parallels with
JIT,
Azul Systems Vega hardware and concurrent garbage collection,
C4 collector design influencing
ZGC and
Shenandoah,
Gil Tene's telephone exchange mentality for JVM responsiveness,
page unmapping and signal handler memory pressure problems in
HotSpot,
Cliff Click and Modular,
Google
Android Runtime (ART) replacing
Dalvik,
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
R8 Android compilers,
Goit internal Google bytecode optimizer,
Jeremy Manson and Google's OpenJDK variant,
Linux kernel performance work and perf tooling,
JikesRVM stack trace format making exception-heavy
DaCapo benchmarks faster than HotSpot,
Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages study comparing Java and Go,
Ian Rogers on twitter: @Ian Rogers
