HotSpot Tools

This page documents a few of the tools that are part of HotSpot.

• IdealGraphVisualizer- tool for examining IR of C2
• LogCompilation tool- parse LogCompilation output of the JVM
• hsdis - disassembler use by hotspot for debugging (no docs yet)
• MakeDeps - build utility for hotspot (no docs yet)

External tools (not shipped with HotSpot, but still for visualizing data structures of HotSpot):

• Client Compiler Visualizer: Tool for examining the HIR, LIR, and linear scan register allocation of the Client Compiler (C1).