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NI-RUN Runtime Systems Extent of teaching: 2P+1C

Instructor: Křikava F., Vlasák M. Completion: Z,ZK

Department: 18101 Credits: 5 Semester: L

Annotation:
As the abstraction level of programming languages steadily rises, modern programs require greater and greater support during their runtime. This course introduces students to various aspects of the runtime support, such as runtime-effective program description, memory management support and garbage collection, just-in-time compilation, and interoperability with other languages and systems.

Lecture syllabus:

1. Calling conventions, system calls, signals, and exceptions

2. Virtual machines (VMs) for high-level languages.

3. Object heap organization. Object table. Immediate values.

4. Memory management, basic garbage collection methods.

5. Bytecode and its interpretation.

6. Just-in-time compilation, method lookup optimization techniques.

7. Advanced optimization techniques: inlining, custom-compilation.

8. Thread implementation, green vs. native threads.

9. JVM: mapping of threads and synchronization primitives to OS resources.

10. Security mechanisms in VMs. Verification of the bytecode. Security Manager.

11. Foreign function calls. Cross-language calls.

12. VM Bootstrap. Metacircular VM.

Seminar syllabus:

1. Language introduction and AST interpretation

2. Bytecode compilation and interpretation

3. Memory management

4. Tagging

5. Dynamic compilation

6. Primitive inlining and callsite caches

7. Multithreading support

Literature:

1. Li, X. F. : Advanced Design and Implementation of Virtual Machines. CRC Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1466582606.

2. Craig, I. D. : Virtual Machines. Springer, 2005. ISBN 978-1852339692.

3. Jones, R. - Hosking, A. - Moss, E. : The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management. Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2011. ISBN 978-1420082791.

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://courses.fit.cvut.cz/MI-RUN/

The course is also part of the following Study plans:

Study Plan Study Branch/Specialization Role Recommended semester

NI-PSS.2020 Computer Systems and Networks V 2

NI-ZI.2020 Knowledge Engineering V 2

NIE-DBE.2023 Digital Business Engineering VO 2

NI-SPOL.2020 Unspecified Branch/Specialisation of Study VO 2

NI-SP.2023 System Programming PS 2

NI-MI.2020 Managerial Informatics V 2

NI-WI.2020 Web Engineering V 2

NI-SP.2020 System Programming PS 2

NI-TI.2023 Computer Science V 2

NI-TI.2020 Computer Science V 2

NI-NPVS.2020 Design and Programming of Embedded Systems V 2

NI-SPOL.2020 Unspecified Branch/Specialisation of Study VO 2

NI-SI.2020 Software Engineering (in Czech) V 2

NI-PB.2020 Computer Security V 2

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NI-RUN	Runtime Systems			Extent of teaching:	2P+1C
Instructor:	Křikava F., Vlasák M.			Completion:	Z,ZK
Department:	18101	Credits:	5	Semester:	L

1.		Calling conventions, system calls, signals, and exceptions
2.		Virtual machines (VMs) for high-level languages.
3.		Object heap organization. Object table. Immediate values.
4.		Memory management, basic garbage collection methods.
5.		Bytecode and its interpretation.
6.		Just-in-time compilation, method lookup optimization techniques.
7.		Advanced optimization techniques: inlining, custom-compilation.
8.		Thread implementation, green vs. native threads.
9.		JVM: mapping of threads and synchronization primitives to OS resources.
10.		Security mechanisms in VMs. Verification of the bytecode. Security Manager.
11.		Foreign function calls. Cross-language calls.
12.		VM Bootstrap. Metacircular VM.

1.		Language introduction and AST interpretation
2.		Bytecode compilation and interpretation
3.		Memory management
4.		Tagging
5.		Dynamic compilation
6.		Primitive inlining and callsite caches
7.		Multithreading support

1.		Li, X. F. : Advanced Design and Implementation of Virtual Machines. CRC Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1466582606.
2.		Craig, I. D. : Virtual Machines. Springer, 2005. ISBN 978-1852339692.
3.		Jones, R. - Hosking, A. - Moss, E. : The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management. Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2011. ISBN 978-1420082791.