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Memory Barriers and JVM Concurrency by Dennis Byrne Posted on Mar 08, 2010 Memory barriers, or fences, are a set of processor instructions used to apply ordering limitations on memory operations. This article explains the impact memory barriers have on the determinism of multi-threaded programs. We'll look at how memory barriers relate to JVM concurrency constructs such as volatile, synchronized and atomic conditionals.

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JRuby: The Pain of Bringing an Off-Platform Dynamic Language to the JVM by Charles Nutter Posted on Jan 07, 2009 In this presentation from the JVM Languages Summit 2008, Charles Nutter discusses bringing JRuby to the JVM, why Ruby is hard to implement, JIT compilation, precompilation, core Ruby implementation, Java library method access, method call semantics, scopes, open classes, heap-based frames, library challenges, strings, regexps, I/O, green threads, POSIX features, C lib support and future plans.

VM Optimizations for Language Designers by John Pampuch Posted on Dec 31, 2008 In this presentation from the JVM Languages Summit 2008, John Pampuch discusses the HotSpot compiler, the history of Java performance, HotSpot development philosophies and challenges, optimization, inlining, virtual methods, loop unrolling, constant folding, escape analysis, synchronization improvements, JVM library improvements, processor-specific optimizations, and tips for better performance.