Isolating the GC code from the jvm to run on external accelerator

[Ofir Gordon]

Thanks a lot!

I will read the documents you attached and look for the Epsilon GC.
Regarding my other question, is it possible to do something like this? to
take the gc into an external program that compiles and runs independently
from the jvm?

‫בתאריך יום ב׳, 4 במאי 2020 ב-15:48 מאת ‪Aleksey Shipilev‬‏ <‪
shade at redhat.com‬‏>:‬

> On 5/4/20 2:37 PM, Ofir Gordon wrote:
> > If there any other advice how to use run the gc on an external hardware
> > (than the one running the jvm) or if someone had expirience with such a
> > task, I'll be glad to hear about it.
>
> From the problem description, I would suggest to look at Epsilon to
> understand where it is hooked
> into runtime interface in allocation paths, and then this post [1] that
> builds the trivial
> mark-compact over it. I think it would then be evident how marking is
> done, and how objects are
> iterated with shared code [2]. After that, understanding other collectors
> would hopefully be simpler.
>
> --
> Thanks,
> -Aleksey
>
> [1] https://shipilev.net/jvm/diy-gc/
> [2] https://shipilev.net/jvm/diy-gc/#_marking
>
>