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Oracle JRockit: The Definitive Guide

Oracle JRockit: The Definitive Guide

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Oracle JRockit: The Definitive Guide

Oracle JRockit: The Definitive Guide

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Oracle JRockit is one of the industry’s highest performing Java Virtual Machines. Java developers are always on the lookout for better ways to analyze application behavior and gain performance. As we all know, this is not as easy as it looks. Welcome to JRockit: The Definitive Guide.This book helps you gain in-depth knowledge of Java from the JVM’s point of view. We will explain how to write code that works well with the JVM to gain performance and scalability. Starting with the inner workings of the JRockit JVM and finishing with a thorough walkthrough of the tools in the JRockit Mission Control suite, this book is for anyone who wants to know more about how the JVM executes your Java application and how to profile for better performance.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Oracle JRockit
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Preface
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Using the JRockit Management APIs
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Bibliography
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Glossary
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AST
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CAS
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HIR
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IR
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JFR
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JMX
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JRA
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JSR
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LIR
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MD5
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MIR
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PDE
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RCP
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SWT
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TLA
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Index

Adaptive code generation


Java is dynamic in nature and certain code generation strategies fit less well than others. From the earlier discussion, the following conclusions can be drawn:

  • Code generation should be done at runtime, not ahead of time.

  • All methods cannot be treated equally by code generator. There needs to be a way to discern a hot method from a cold one. Otherwise unnecessary optimization effort is spent on cold methods, or worse, not enough optimization effort on hot methods.

  • In a JIT compiler, bookkeeping needs to be in place in order to keep up with the adaptive runtime. This is because generated native code invalidated by changes to the running program must be thrown away and potentially regenerated.

Achieving code execution efficiency in an adaptive runtime, no matter what JIT or interpretation strategy it uses, all boils down to the equation:

Total Execution Time = Code Generation Time + Execution Time

In other words, if we spend lots of effort carefully generating and optimizing...

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