Why am I writing this? It’s been a year since the start of my internship with Eclipse OpenJ9 team. During this time, I’ve learned so much about compilers, cloud computing, working with a team, and even found a new hobby. Today, I want to reflect on this experience and tell you what it’s like to…
Month: May 2019
A Guide to Double Map Arraylets
What are arraylets? When an array or any object is created in a Java program, one of the places the Garbage Collector (GC) stores objects is in the heap. Individual objects are stored in a contiguous block of memory, which makes it easier to reference them. Arrays as such are also stored in a contiguous…
Brief Intro to JITaaS and Double Map
Continuing my team’s work from the 2018 Extreme Blue (EB) term, I spent the first two weeks of my co-op wrapping up our JITaaS project so that it could be merged. During EB, my team was responsible for implementing a prototype for JITaaS (Just in Time Compiler as a Service). Runtimes are comprised of various…