Runtime Systems

Course guarantor:

Filip Křikava

Lecturer:

Filip Křikava

Tutor:

Filip Křikava

Supervisor:

Department of Theoretical Computer Science

Synopsis:

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

Requirements:

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

Syllabus of lectures:

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.

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. TBD.

Study Objective:

The aim is to complete education in the field of programming languages with the knowledge of runtime systems and virtual machines for different kinds of programming languages.

Study materials:

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

Note:

Further information:

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

Time-table for winter semester 2024/2025:

Time-table is not available yet

Time-table for summer semester 2024/2025:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue	roomTH:A-1247 Křikava F. 14:30–16:00 (lecture parallel1) Thákurova 7 (budova FSv) roomTH:A-1247 Křikava F. 16:15–17:00 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.101) Thákurova 7 (budova FSv)
Wed
Thu
Fri

The course is a part of the following study plans: