Re: [rvm-research] Researching the Jikes RVM

On 05/03/13 00:13, Kathiravelu Pradeeban wrote:
> Hi Devs,
> We are a group of 3 Erasmus Mundus master students from Instituto
> Superior Técnico, Lisbon. We are currently studying the JIT Compiler
> and MMTk Garbage collector module of Jikes, for our "Virtual Execution
> Environments" research. During this, I noticed that many of the
> presentations and resources linked in [1] lead to the presentations
> that do not exist (e.g. [2], [3], and [4]). Could you please point me
> to the current location of these resources?
The MMTk Tutorial has been updated and is now available here,
http://jikesrvm.org/MMTk+Tutorial.
>
> I would also like to know the status of the Compressor Mark-Compact
> Garbage Collector project listed in [5]. I found that a GSoC student
> worked on it, during 2010. Is it already completed? If not, I would
> like to work on that, as I am focusing on MMTk garbage collector. I
> had a look at the GSoC 2013 project ideas [6], but it is not included
> there. If it is already implemented, could you point me to some other
> feature requests, that fits an equal amount of work load? I tried to
> view the rfe from [7]. But they are marked as 'historic' and are
> empty. Am I looking into a wrong place?
>
> I have recently built jikes, and wrote a blog post on that [8]. Sorry
> for bugging with too many questions in a single mail. I logged into
> the irc [9]. But no one seems to be logged in there. As an open source
> evangelist and four time Google Summer of Code participant (twice as a
> student, with AbiWord and OMII-UK, and twice as a mentor with
> AbiWord), I am comfortable with the open source technologies, and also
> experienced in programming with Java technologies. I hope I can make a
> positive contribution to the community, with the research.j
>
> Thank you.
> Regards,
> Pradeeban.
>
> [1] http://jikesrvm.org/Presentations
> [2] http://jikesrvm.sourceforge.net/info/talks/ISMM04-MMTk.pdf
> [3] http://jikesrvm.sourceforge.net/info/talks/pldi02-tutorial6-30-02.ps.gz
> [4] http://www.research.ibm.com/jalapeno/pact01-tutorial/all.ZIP
> [5] http://docs.codehaus.org/display/RVM/Google+Summer+of+Code+2012
> [6] http://docs.codehaus.org/display/RVM/Google+Summer+of+Code+2013
> [7] https://sourceforge.net/p/jikesrvm/_list/tickets?source=navbar
> [8] http://kkpradeeban.blogspot.com/2013/03/building-jikes-rvm-on-ubuntu-1204-64.html
> [9] irc://irc.codehaus.org/#jikesrvm
>
>


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