Cliff Click @ VMSS16: Bits of Advice For the VM Writer

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1. @filereaperMar 2019· in “Building Fast Interpreters in Rust”

   I highly recommend folks to view this talk by the venerable Cliff Click called "Bits of Advice For the VM Writer" [1] Of particular interest are Continuation Style Passing Interpreters [2] and how much of a speedup you can get by going to raw assembly. The talk has lessons Cliff learned from his years on the JVM but those can be adapted easily to other runtimes. [1] this video [2] [LINK]

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2. @filereaperNov 2021· in “Ask HN: Best Books on the JVM?”

   I strongly recommend following and listening to videos by Cliff Click who wrote HotSpot and worked on Azul and other VMs. Cliff also has Coffee Compiler Club sessions on Fridays. - [LINK] - this video

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3. @filereaperMar 2017· in “The Structure and Performance of Efficient Interpreters [pdf]”

   Very poor, there's no mention of continuation style passing interpreters. If anyone's curious about tales from the battlefield, highly recommend Cliff Click's talks (any of them) [1] [1] this video

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4. @tjalfiJun 2021· in “Intel to disable TSX by default on more CPUs with new microcode”

   I'm also a fan of Cliff and other Rice alumni; here are a few of his videos that I like. [0] The Sea of Nodes and the HotSpot JIT [1] A JVM Does That? [2] A Crash Course in Modern Hardware [3] Bits of Advice for the VM Writer [0] [LINK] [1] [LINK] [2] [LINK] [3] this video

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5. @hyperpapeApr 2017· in “On mutex performance and WTF::Lock”

   He doesn't give a lot of details, but somewhere in the first 20 minutes of this talk (probably 15 minutes in), Cliff Click says that Hotspot had to create fair locks in user-space because kernel provided locks weren't adequate. this video

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