Towards a Universal VM

Alex Buckley talks the features and progress that should make the JVM the universal run-time environment for languages. Interesting discussion in the talk include:

• the distinction between the roles of the byte-code compiler and JVM compiler.
• a high-level overview of how the JVM does method inline optimizations.
• the introduction of dynamicinvoke in the new JVM.

The talk is normally 1-2 steps lower level than what software developers deal with on a day-to-day basis but nevertheless very understandable and useful to know.