implementing escape analysis

[Paul Biggar]

Hi Mark,

JikesRVM has flow-insensitive escape analysis, but doesn't include work
from the Choi/Gupta/et al paper. I'll be looking at their implementation
in due course.

Thanks,
Paul

On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 09:53 +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 01:00 +0100, Tom Tromey wrote:
> > For Java it is also interesting to do thread escape analysis, where
> > you omit locking if you can prove that an object does not escape a
> > thread.  There's an IBM Jalapeno paper on this topic (both kinds of
> > escape analysis really).
> 
> Just for reference. Jalapeno was renamed JikesRVM when it was released
> as Free Software. Based on GNU Classpath of course :)
> Since it is used so much in research institutions and universities it
> has an impressive list of research papers based on it and since it is
> Free Software the code to back up some of these papers/algorithms is
> actually available as part of JikesRVM:
> http://jikesrvm.sourceforge.net/info/papers.shtml
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mark
>