Jikes RVM

rahul kumar <rahulk-TkgXTuSR4r0f5/[email protected]> Mon, 3 May 2004 11:55:18 +0530

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If you are interested in learning about how a VM works, e.g. things 
like adaptive compilation, GC etc, or tinkering around with the same, 
you could use the Jikes RVM.

It's written in Java, not C/C++.
It runs itself - no need to run within another VM.
Its opensource, and is based on GNU Classpath - thus there are some 
limitations on what you can run on it - awt and swing for example.
OTOH, It can run Eclipse with no modifications.

http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/jikesrvm/info/overview.shtml