- Juice (JVM)
JUICE is a
J2ME experimentalJava Virtual Machine written inC language according to theSun Microsystems specifications.The Juice JVM, designed for real-time Java, was specifically developed to run on theNUXI operating system.The most relevant features of Juice are related to the structure for the heap memory, to the object allocation policy and to thegarbage collector used.Heap memory
In Juice, all the available heap memory is shared in "chunks" of pre-fixed size.The memory unit used is the "d-word" (that stands for "double-word"). The actual default size of the chunks is fixed to 64 d-words.The free memory chunks are organized in a linked list, while the chunks occupied by Java objects are connected to each other through a hierarchical structure in a way that remembers the representation of the UNIX file system.
Real-time object allocation policy
The object allocation policy in Juice is strictly connected to the structure used to represent heap memory.Because of this structure, it becomes possible to allocate (and deallocate) Java objects in a time that is dependent only on the size of the object itself (predictability).
The Pay-per-Use garbage collector
The proposed garbage collector is based on a non-copying tracing collector that performs memory reclamation only when a new object has to be allocated.The name of the garbage collector is due to the fact that the cost paid by the mutator, in terms of wasted time for collector execution, is proportional to the size of the object to allocate.
Authors
Garbage Collector, Heap Memory Management: [http://www.diit.unict.it/~csanto Corrado Santoro] , [http://prof3ta.netsons.org Roberto Aloi]
All the rest: [http://www.diit.unict.it/~csanto Corrado Santoro]
References
* [http://nuxi.diit.unict.it/juice.html The Juice Home Page]
* A. Corsaro, C. Santoro. [http://www.irisa.fr/manifestations/2004/wcet2004/Papers/Corsaro.pdf "Optimizing JVM Object Operations to Improve WCET Predictability"] , article presented to the [http://www.irisa.fr/manifestations/2004/wcet2004/ 4th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time] , 2004.
* A. Corsaro, C. Santoro. A C++ Native Interface for Interpreted JVMs. In 1st Intl. JTRES Workshop (JTRES’03). LNCS 2889, Springer, 2003.
* R. Aloi. [http://prof3ta.netsons.org/docs/tesi.pdf "Memory Management and Garbage Collection in Real-time Java"(Italian)] , thesis in Computer Engineering (University of Catania, Italy), 2005.
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