Java SE HotSpot Publications

HotSpot related technology has been featured in the literature, at conferences and in articles. Below is a listing of some of these references.

• Oct 2006. Ken Russell and Dave Detlefs, Eliminating Synchronization-Related Atomic Operation with Biased Locking and Bulk Rebiasing. Paper from OOPSLA 2006. Slides.
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• Sep 2006. Christian Wimmer and Hanspeter Mossenbock. Automatic Object Colocation Based on Read Barriers. Paper from Joint Modular Languages Conference 2006.
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• May 2006. Steve Goldman, Dave Detlefs, Steve Dever and Ken Russell, New Compiler Optimizations in the Java HotSpot Virtual Machine. Talk from JavaOne 2006.
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• May 2006. John Coomes and Tony Printezis, Performance Through Parallelism: Java HotSpot Virtual Machine Garbage Collection Improvements. Talk from JavaOne 2006.
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• Dec 2005. Tony Printezis, How to Handle Java Finalization's Memory-Retention Issues. Article for DevX.com.
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• Jun 2005. Thomas Kotzmann and Hanspeter Mossenbock. Escape Analysis in the Context of Dynamic Compilation and Deoptimization. Paper from VEE '05.
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• Jun 2005. Christian Wimmer and Hanspeter Mossenbock. Optimized Interval Splitting in a Linear Scan Register Allocator. Paper from VEE '05.
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• Oct 2004. Dave Detlefs, Christine Flood, Steve Heller and Tony Printezis, Garbage-First Garbage Collection. Paper from ISMM 2004.
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• Aug 2004. Christian Wimmer. Linear Scan Register Allocation for the Java HotSpot Client Compiler. Master's thesis, Johannes Kepler University.
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• Jun 2004. Peter Kessler, Jon Masamitsu and John Coomes. Garbage Collection in the Java HotSpot Virtual Machine: Choices and Trade-Offs. Talk from JavaOne 2004.
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• Jun 2004. Wally Wedel and Brian Doherty. Using jvmstat and visualgc to Solve Memory Management Problems. Talk from JavaOne 2004.
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• Jun 2003. John Coomes and Tony Printezis. Garbage Collection in the Java HotSpot Virtual Machine. Talk from JavaOne 2003.
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• Jun 2003. Brian Doherty, Ben Kim and David Stoutamire. Performance Monitoring for the Java Virtual Machine. Talk from JavaOne 2003.
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• Nov 2002. Cliff Click and John Rose, Fast subtype checking in the HotSpot JVM. Paper from Java Grande 2002.
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• Aug 2002. Dave Detlefs, Ross Knippel, William Clinger and Matthias Jacob, Concurrent Remembered Set Refinement in Generational Garbage Collection. Paper from JVM '02.
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• Mar 2002. Tom Rodriguez and Ken Russell, Client Compiler for the Java HotSpot Virtual Machine: Technology and Application. Talk from JavaOne 2002.
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• Mar 2002. Tony Printezis and Ken Russell, Experimental Tools for Serviceability. Talk from JavaOne 2002.
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• Apr 2001. Mike Paleczny, Chris Vick, and Cliff Click, The Java HotSpot Server Compiler. Paper from JVM '01.
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• Apr 2001. Ken Russell and Lars Bak, The HotSpot Serviceability Agent: An out-of-process high level debugger for a Java(tm) virtual machine. Paper from JVM '01.
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• Oct 2000. Robert Griesemer and Srdjan Mitrovic, A Compiler for the Java HotSpot Virtual Machine. In The School of Niklaus Wirth - The Art of Simplicity.
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• Jun 2000. Dave Detlefs and Tony Printezis, A Generational Mostly-concurrent Garbage Collector. Sun Labs Technical Report.
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• Oct 1998. Sheng Liang and Gilad Bracha, Dynamic class loading in the Java virtual machine. Paper from OOPSLA 1998.
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• Jan 1995. Cliff Click and Mike Paleczny, A Simple Graph-Based Intermediate Representation. Paper from IR '95.

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