JVM internals documentation?

[James Melvin]

Hi Ted,

Here is a good place to start...

http://openjdk.java.net/groups/hotspot

There are several docs covering various Hotspot subsystems and
internals, including a glossary of terms.


Thanks,

Jim


Ted Neward wrote:
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> I’m looking to start crawling through the JVM sources, and was just 
> looking for documentation to help keep the major parts (GC, JIT 
> compiler, Reflection, ClassLoaders, etc) straight. John Rose mentioned 
> that there may be some “internals” documentation/specs that describe 
> some of the internal data structures and such—are those available, and 
> if not, is there a plan to open-source them real-soon-now?
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