UCSB CS263 Course Reading Assignments

CS263 Course Reading Assignments
Chandra Krintz
UCSB - 2009 (Winter)

The dates specified below are the dates by which you should complete the reading (by the start of class on that date). On the date specified it is possible that there will be a quiz or questions concerning the reading during class.

Sep 29-Oct 1:
- Parts of Chpt 3 of JVM Spec
- Part 4 of JVM Spec
- http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-1997/jw-06-hood_p.html
- http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-07-1996/jw-07-classfile_p.html
- Chapter 2.17 Execution
- Read Chapter 5
- This is not assigned reading, but it is a page that is an index for the JVM topics. The index includes a alpha-order search -- click on the first letter of the bytecode instruction you are interested in, to see what the instruction does and what operands it takes. For example for iadd, click on i, go to the iadd instruction entry, and click on the definition link.
Oct 6:
- Paper: X. Leroy, Java Bytecode Verification: an Overview
  (PS) (PDF)
  (read up to section 3.3),
- Chapter 4 Section 4.9
Nov 5th
Optimizing indirect branch prediction accuracy in virtual machine interpreters, K. Casey, M. Ertl, and D. Gregg

Nov 10th
IBM Research Report: Adaptive Optimization In Virtual Machines, M. Arnold, S. Fink, D. Grove, M. Hind, and P. Sweeney

Nov 17th
Uniprocessor Garbage Collection Techniques , P. Wilson
Do not print this -- its huge! Read sections 1, 2, and 4 thoroughly.

Nov 30th
XMem: Type-Safe, Transparent, Shared Memory for Cross-Runtime Communication and Coordination, M. Wegiel and C. Krintz, PLDI 2008

CS263 Course Reading Assignments Chandra KrintzUCSB - 2009 (Winter)

CS263 Course Reading Assignments
Chandra Krintz
UCSB - 2009 (Winter)