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-Archie > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Oct 15 09:20:01 2001 > From: "David Shields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Jikes] IBM releases Jikes Research Virtual Machine on developerworks > Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 11:46:15 -0400 > > Just to let you know that IBM Research has just released the Jikes > Research Virtual Machine (RVM) on developerworks: > > http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/projects/jikesrvm > > The RVM is designed to execute Java programs that are typically used > in research on fundamental virtual machine design issues. It will > provide academic and research communities with a flexible testbed to > prototype new virtual machine technologies and experiment with > different design alternatives. It runs on the AIX/PowerPC, > Linux/PowerPC, and Linux/IA-32 platforms, and exhibits > industry-strength performance for many benchmark programs on the first > two of these platforms. > > The Jikes RVM includes the latest VM technologies for dynamic > compilation, adaptive optimization, garbage collection, thread > scheduling, and synchronization. The Jikes RVM is implemented in the > Java programming language. > > It was originally hoped to release the project using the name > "Jalapeno" that was internally used during its development. However, > it turns out some company has a claim on this name, so we decided to > use "Jikes", as we have done before for projects from the Software > Technology department here at IBM Research. > > The project has no direct link to the Jikes Compiler Project other > than requiring the Jikes compiler for its compilation. Indeed, this is the > reason Jikes supports the the "+K" option. > > dave __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com
