Stereotypically, interns are known to receive the short end of the stick. Whether it’s cleaning up scrappy (and usually unimportant) parts of a project, or doing boring brain-dead tasks that the full-time members are too busy to do, the work that we interns tend to receive is usually viewed as miscellaneous housework. Two weeks into…
This post describes my winter 2019 internship in the Eclipse OpenJ9 team. At the time of writing, I am a second-year computer science student at the University of Waterloo. This was my first co-op term, so I was excited to utilize the knowledge learned from university in a real-world programming project. The first part of…
This blog is intended to serve as a technical overview of current Direct Dump Reader (DDR) implementation and an instruction to add new DDR extensions. It is the responsibility of Eclipse OpenJ9 developers to modify DDR whenever there are some changes in J9VM. Additionally, I briefly introduce memory layouts of ValueTypes in J9VM and a…
In the fall of 2018, I had the opportunity to intern with OpenJ9’s Garbage Collection (GC) team. OpenJ9 is a Java Virtual Machine (JVM). At the time, I was a fourth year computer engineering student at the University of Waterloo. Before working with the GC team, I had also worked in OpenJ9’s Release Engineering team….
This post adds on to Dockerfile for Building and Testing OpenJ9. At Eclipse OpenJ9 we want to be able to compile & test code on different architecture and operating system combinations. However we are constrained by the number of machines we have access to, so we use Docker containers to supplement them. Docker containers are…
