JavaScript:Compiler References
JIT
- PyCon 2010:How to Compile Python x86 Assembly, the Python Way (3h talk)
- Tracing the meta-level: PyPy's tracing JIT compiler
- Trace-based Just-in-Time Type Specialization for Dynamic Languages
- JIT spraying and mitigations
- security implications of jit compilation
- Fast, effective code generation in a just-in-time Java compiler
SSA
VM
- The Implementation of Lua 5.0
- Language-Independent Sandboxing of Just-In-Time Compilation and Self-Modifying Code (see http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tech.js-engine.internals/browse_thread/thread/4a63ab71f6c50fce)
- Interpreter Exploitation
- Representing type information in dynamically typed languages
- Mozilla’s New JavaScript Value Representation (NaN boxing, mirrored by me)
- value-representation-in-javascript-implementations
- The Case for Virtual Register Machines
- Virtual Machine Showdown: Stack Versus Registers
- Ropes: an Alternative to Strings
- Array Bounds Check Elimination Utilizing a Page Protection Mechanism
Garbage Collection
- Waste Not, Want Not Resource-based Garbage Collection in a Shared Environment (see this post)
- Myths & Realities The Performance Impact of Garbage Collection
- Pauseless GC in the Azul JVM
- The Pauseless GC Algorithm
- GC FAQ
- Back to basic: Series on dynamic memory management
- A fast write barrier for generational garbage collectors
- Garbage Collection: algorithms for automatic dynamic memory management (the definitive book on GC as of 1996)
- Garbage Collection Handbook (new GC book by Jones, Hosking and Moss, coming out at the end of August 2011)