JSR 292 server compiler support in JDK 7 b80

About two weeks ago I pushed the remaining changes (<font>6894206, </font><font>6893081, </font><font>6829187, </font><font>6893268</font>) for C2 invokedynamic support on x86 which were integrated into HotSpot 17 b07.  Meanwhile HS17b07 has been integrated into JDK 7 b80 and the latter has been released.

With two changesets <font></font>John Rose pushed lately (<font>6891770, </font><font>6914665)</font>, which have been integrated into JDK 7 b79, you can run now invokedynamic enabled programs with decent performance.  Additionally we tuned inlining heuristics a little (<font>6912063) to be able to use inline-related</font> switches in a product VM and to not count generated MethodHandle adapters.

And here is how it works (gwt is a simple testcase for guardWithTest):

$ java -server -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+EnableMethodHandles -XX:+EnableInvokeDynamic gwt
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You can also run JRuby benchmarks, like <font face="courier new,courier,monospace">bench_fractal.rb</font> which prints a nice fractal (we need to tune inlining heuristics a little to get good performance):

$ bin/jruby --server -J-Djruby.compile.invokedynamic=true -J-XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -J-XX:+EnableMethodHandles -J-XX:+EnableInvokeDynamic -J-XX:InlineSmallCode=2500 -J-XX:MaxInlineSize=50 bench/bench_fractal.rb
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(To see the fractal you have to try it yourself :-)

The next thing will be C1 support.  I'm currently working on it and it's almost finished.

Syndicated 2010-01-22 13:33:16 from twisti's weblog

One

It's exactly one year ago that I started to work for Sun.  Nice!  I wasn't sure that I will make the anniversary facing the merger with Oracle.  Anyway, I learned a lot in this first year and I'm really looking forward to the next years at Sun (or whatever the company will be called then).

Syndicated 2010-01-12 09:25:35 from twisti's weblog

Compiz and the Meta key in Emacs

When I switched back to OpenSolaris I wanted to use Compiz instead of Metacity to have at least some eye candy.  After switching to Compiz I noticed that the Meta key is not working in Emacs.  Since it worked in the "Normal Visual Effects" mode I was sure it's related to one of the Compiz plugins that was turned on by default in the "Custom" mode.

After some trial and error I found out that the "Group and Tab Windows" in the "Window Management" section is the bugger.  It uses a couple of <Mod4> key bindings and one of them is <Mod4>x.

Disabling that plugin makes M-x work again in Emacs.

Syndicated 2009-10-02 15:33:22 from twisti's weblog

Back to OpenSolaris (and DBX)

A few months ago I got a new laptop (unibody MacBook Pro) and I decided to stay with Mac OS X because of two main reasons: Broadcom WiFi and the touchpad.  Everything looked very slick and worked, obviously, out-of-the-box.  A perfect OS for private use.

But developing on that OS is a pain in the...  Apple's GDB drives me nuts!  It was crashing every now and then and was 95% of the time not able to call simple C++ instance methods.  Completely useless!!!

I filed a few bugs in Apple's Radar and tried to get the FSF guys to support Darwin in their GDB.  Some help in both cases, but nothing I could really use.

So, yesterday I decided to bite the bullet, install OpenSolaris again, use NDIS Wrapper for the Broadcom WiFi and to give the xorg-input-synaptics package of SFE a try for the touchpad.  The first one is working flawlessly, but only in 32-bit mode.  That means I can't test 64-bit HotSpot locally.  Well, I can live with that for some time.  I didn't have time to try the second one yet but I hope it works.

Glad to be back.

Syndicated 2009-10-02 15:14:58 from twisti's weblog

JSR 292 work update

I'm still working on HotSpot compiler support for JSR 292.  The progress is actually very good and inlining is already working in C2.  Although there are still some problems with scavenging oops in nmethods and you have to stick to <font face="'courier new', courier, monospace">UseSerialGC</font> if you want to give it a try.  But John Rose is working on a fix for that.

While not working on inlining I started porting JSR 292 support to x86_64.  I've already commited the interpreter support and compiler support is in the works and almost finished.

In the meantime Charles Nutter introduced another dynamic language, called Surinx, which uses invokedynamic and "the solid performance of Surinx bodes very well for JRuby's future."  That sounds good.

Syndicated 2009-09-09 12:32:57 from twisti's weblog