The Ideal Graph Visualizer is a tool developed to help examine the
intermediate representation of C2 which is commonly referred to as the
"ideal graph". It was developed in collaboration with the University
of Linz in Austria and has been included as part of hotspot since
that was the primary target of the tool. The tool itself is fairly
general with on a few modules that contain C2 specific elements.
The tool is built on top of the NetBeans 6.0 rich client infrastucture
and so requires NetBeans to build. It currently requires Java 6 to
run as it needs support for JavaScript for its filtering mechanism and
assumes it's built into the platform. It's possible to run it on 1.5
by including Rhino on the classpath though that currently isn't
working correctly.
Papers describing the tools itself are available at HotSpot/Publications+JKU
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