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Intel's Open Runtime Platform Specs

Posted by timothy on from the ac-dc dept.

prostoalex writes "The new issue of Intel Technology Journal has a lengthy article on a new platform, developed in Intel labs. The Open Runtime Platform: A Flexible High-Performance Managed Runtime Environment describes the platform that is capable of running both Java VM and Microsoft's CLI, on both Windows and Linux platforms. Full PDF version is also available."

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  1. Article Distilled: by Ayanami+Rei · · Score: 5, Interesting

    We managed to create a virtual machine that is the superset of the .NET CLR and the JVM. This super-vm can compile straight into machine code for IA-32 and Itanium, and it can do it dynamically in realtime through profiling. It also has a bunch of different optimizers and garbage collectors it can pick from.

    All this is implemented in C++. They use opensource class libraries to provide the classpaths.

    What I would find really cool is if they can release a microcode-based CPU that runs the superset bytecode. It may simply be a microcode patch to the Itanium. That would be truely wicked.

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  2. machine code Java by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I would love to see an open source ahead-of-time compiler for Java.

    There have been great speed gains with Java, but it still has enormous memory overhead. I would like to see more numeric computation in Java, but I'm not sure it will with the memory requirements Java typically has.

    I know that GCC has a Java ahead-of-time compiler in it, but last time I checked, the memory specs were comparable to the JIT/JVM/whatever it is.

    Does anyone know about the memory specs on this? I looked through the paper extremely quickly, and didn't see it in there. I assumed the "performance" tables I was looking at was referring to speed.

  3. Relative performance to microsoft CLI...? by rhyd · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Although the pdf has a pretty comparison graph of performance with Sun's JVM (which intel wins) there is no such analysis of intel's MRTE against microsofts CLR. I dunno but suspect there is gonna be a MS EULA that absolutely forbids publishing benchmark results of the MS CLR. Either that of intel's MRTE was slower! Anyone read the EULA?

    The only thing I got from the article was an appreciation of just how much the MS.NET developers copied the Java architecture. It would seem that to achieve the grand unification of CLR and JVM the Intel engineers just had to define a 1-1 mapping between buzzwords ;)

    (
    gripe: "runtime" is only one word so it should be called MRE... i guess that name was avoided because it is associated with Jim Carey's villan in Batman Forever :)
    )

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  4. ORP Open? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    If ORP is so open as it name implies - Open Runtime Platform, then why is it closed source?

    Where can I get a copy of this ORP that they talk about so I can make my own comparisons?

    If they did release the source code to ORP, would this compete with Sun's Java JVM and Microsoft's .NET CLR then?