Operating System Support for Java Virtual Machine: A New Methodology of Boosting Java Runtime Performance

摘要

Java virtual machine (JVM) provides a virtualized execution environment for Java applications. To maintain safety and efficiency of the execution environment, JVM employs some major runtime sub-systems such as garbage collection, just-in-time compilation and lock management Recent work found that the runtime overheads increase significantly when workload of Java applications increase. To solve this problem, researchers of academia and industry have developed various approaches of utilizing VM-OS-hardware interactions to improve Java runtime performance. In this article, I discussed recent representative works in this research area.