A JVM Does That?

Why HN readers recommended it

A repeated recommendation for anyone interested in VMs, with Click's talks regarded as unusually informative on JVMs, JITs and the user/kernel boundary.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Google TechTalks

Topic

jvm internals

Format

talk

Level

advanced

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

8

Recommendation years in dataset

2011–2017

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Cliff Click was the jvm architect at sun then spent a decade at azul systems as their jvm architect. The talk is "A JVM Does That?" It's well worth watching if you are interested in vms at all. [VIDEO]

• Probably this one: [LINK] Anything from Cliff Click is quite good. This guy has a very deep understanding of compilers, virtual-machines, CPUs, and their interactions. A JVM does that? [VIDEO] Java on a 1000 Cores [LINK]

• There are some interesting challenging when scaling this large with any system. Peter referenced some of Azul System's stuff and their custom GC. Cliff Click from Azul has done some great Google Tech Talks about JVM development and scaling JVM's out to really big systems.[1][2] …