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MI-RUN.16 Runtime Systems Extent of teaching: 2P+1C
Instructor: Completion: Z,ZK
Department: 18101 Credits: 5 Semester: Z

Annotation:
Student become familiar - theoretically and practically - with runtime systems and virtual machines for various programming languages.

Lecture syllabus:
1. Runtime for C/C++, static vs. dynamic linking, position independent code, memory management.
2. Calling conventions, system calls, signals and exceptions.
3. Virtual machines for high-level languages: JVM, MSIL, Squeak, SELF.
4. Organization of object heap. Object table. Immediate values.
5. Memory management, basic garbage collection methods.
6. Bytecode and its interpretation.
7. Just-in-time compilations, method lookup optimizations techniques.
8. Advanced optimization techniques: inlining, custom-compilation. SELF SIC.
9. Thread implementation. Green vs. Native threads.
10. JVM: mapping of threads and synchonization primitives to OS resources.
11. Exceptions - implementation in C++, JVM, Smalltalk.
12. Security mechanisms in VMs. Verification of the bytecode. Security Manager.
13. Foreign function calls. Cross-language calls.
14. VM Bootstrap. metacircular VM.

Seminar syllabus:
1. TBD.

Literature:
1. Smith, J., Nair, R. ''Virtual Machines: Versatile Platforms for Systems and Processes''. Morgan Kaufmann, 2005. ISBN 1558609105.

Requirements:
Object-oritented programming, machine code, programming languages (C, C++, Java, Smalltalk, or another dynamic language).

Informace o předmětu a výukové materiály naleznete na https://moodle.fit.cvut.cz/courses/MI-RUN.16/ // Předmět není rozvrhován. Vyučující Vás kontaktujte před začátkem semestru.

The course is also part of the following Study plans:
Study Plan Study Branch/Specialization Role Recommended semester
MI-SP-SP.2016 System Programming PZ 3
NI-TI.2018 Computer Science V 3


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