Page History

...

• overview of the JIT compilers; does not exist yet: http://openjdk.java.net/groups/hotspot/docs/Compiler.html
• glossary of terms found in the HotSpot sources and documentation
• Thinking About Intermediate Representations: in general terms, what an IR is and how it works

Interesting tasks to do

• Pull documentation from internal j2se/HotspotCompilers and javaweb/hotspot/Compiler (Sun engrs. only).
• Document major classes of optimization.