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• Thomas Kotzmann, Christian Wimmer, Hanspeter Mössenböck, Thomas Rodriguez, Kenneth Russell, David Cox: Design of the Java HotSpot™ Client Compiler for Java 6. In ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization, volume 5, issue 1, article 7. ACM Press, 2008. doi:10.1145/1369396.1370017
  Explains the structure of the client compiler, its intermediate representations, and the optimization algorithms. It describes the client compiler of the Java HotSpot™ VM of Java 6. Java 7 and OpenJDK contain no significant changes, so all information up-to-date.

• Christian Wimmerr: Linear Scan Register Allocation for the Java HotSpot™ Client Compiler. Master's thesis, Institute for System Software, Johannes Kepler University Linz, 2004.
  Extended description of the client compiler, with a focus on the register allocator. Read Chapter 4 for if you are interested in the details of the compiler and the intermediate representations. The term "research compiler" in this thesis refers to the product version of Java 6 (which was not released at the time of writing).

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