Re: [rvm-research] Researching the Jikes RVM

Hi,

On 04.03.2013 14:13, Kathiravelu Pradeeban wrote:
> 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?

Michael Gendelman worked on the Compressor in 2010. The code and some
information about the design is available at
http://code.google.com/p/jikesrvm-compressor/.

IIRC the Compressor implementation wasn't stable enough for mainline, so
there is still work to do.

> I had a look at the GSoC 2013 project ideas [6], but it is not included
> there. 

We're still in the progress of collecting ideas for projects. I'm sure
that researchers and students working on memory management will add or
suggest appropriate ideas in the near future.

You can also write a proposal that is not based on an project suggestion
from the list.

> If it is already implemented, could you point me to some other
> feature requests, that fits an equal amount of work load? 

There were some MMTk projects in GSoC 2011 that could be continued. Take
a look at point 2) and 3) on
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/RVM/Google+Summer+of+Code+2011 . You
can also take a look at the idea lists from the previous GSoC.

> I tried to
> view the rfe from [7]. But they are marked as 'historic' and are
> empty. Am I looking into a wrong place?

We've got a JIRA instace at http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/RVM (as
described
on http://www.jikesrvm.org/Issue+Tracker).


Kind regards,

Erik Brangs

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