Xiao-Feng Li wrote:
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Thilina Buddhika <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I am interested in writing a graphical front-end for Harmony memory
management as my GSoC project. And of course, It would be really beneficial
to implement it as a Eclipse plugin.
I would appreciate, if you could give your suggestions and feedback on this
project to refine this idea further.
Hi, Thilina, thanks for being interested. The most known GC
visualization tool is GCspy [1][2]. It has been working well with some
JVM implementations. So GCspy is a very good reference for Harmony.
Since GCspy is released under a BSD-like license, we can reuse its
client part and also the protocol. We could write our own tool from
the scratch, but I think it's unwise at the moment.
Hi,
just to point out that the Jikes RVM is hoping to run a similar project
[1] as well as hoping to integrate with Harmony [2]. One idea is to look
at Tuning Fork [3] to provide improved visualization.
Regards,
Ian Rogers
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~irogers
[1]
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/RVM/Project+Proposals+2008#ProjectProposals2008-GarbageCollectionVisualization
[2]
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/RVM/Project+Proposals+2008#ProjectProposals2008-Harmonyclasslibrarysupport
[3]
http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/metronome.tenedor.html
[1] Tony Printezis , Richard Jones, GCspy: an adaptable heap
visualisation framework, Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGPLAN
conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and
applications, November 04-08, 2002, Seattle, Washington, USA
[2] http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/gc/gcspy/
Thanks,
xiaofeng
thanks in advance.
BR,
Thilina
