Maxine VM: A Metacircular VM for Java in Java

Updates

• 2018-03-09: Maxine VM 2.3.0 Release
  • Implemented Aarch64 Assembler
  • Implemented Aarch64 T1X port, Adapters
  • Ported Cross-ISA testing infrastructure to RISC-V
  • Bug and stability fixes
  • Code refactoring and cleanup
• 2017-11-23: Maxine VM 2.2.0 Release
  • Build against OpenJDK8u151-b12
  • Support invokedynamic
  • Support lambdas (Only on JDK8 builds)
  • Support default methods (Only on JDK8 builds)
  • End support for JDK6
  • Bug and stability fixes
• 2017-10-13: Maxine VM 2.1.2 Release
  • Support method handles
  • Bug and stability fixes
• 2017-05-31: Maxine VM 2.1.1 Release
  • Port to latest OpenJDK 7 (u131)
• 2017-04-18: Maxine VM 2.1.0 Release
  • Enable profile-guided optimizations in Graal (T1X profiling info added)
  • Bug and stability fixes
  • ARMv7 execution (T1X, C1X)

Roadmap

Maxine VM's roadmap can be found in the wiki.

Publications

For the original Maxine VM please cite:
C. Wimmer et al, “Maxine: An approachable virtual machine for, and in, java”, In ACM TACO 2013.

For Maxine VM >= v2.1 please cite:
Christos Kotselidis, et al. Heterogeneous Managed Runtime Systems: A Computer Vision Case Study. In 13th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE), 2017.

Acknowledgments

This work in Maxine VM is partially supported by EPSRC grants Anyscale EP/L000725/1, PAMELA EP/K008730/1, DOME EP/J016330/1, and EU Horizon 2020 ACTiCLOUD 732366 grant.

Users Mailing list

A mailing list is also available to discuss topics related to Maxine VM.

[email protected]

Collaborations

We welcome collaborations! Please contact Christos Kotselidis for external collaborations.

Relevant Projects

MaxSim: A simulation platform for Managed Applications, Andrey Rodchenko

Wiki

For more information please visit the Maxine VM's wiki