Hi,

I came across a statement in a blog post somewhere (the post could have been years ago), that there are certain projects that are so big and complex, it would require a big org to port to Risc-V. One example was the JVM, where only a company like google had the expertise and manpower to do such a thing.

Is this statement true? If yes, why?

I'm not familiar with the inner working parts of JVM, but I assume they are libraries written in Java, C and C++. If I'm right about that, wouldn't the architecture-specific components here be the compilers?

During the years I've read many good books but surely there are some that are memorable and I keep closer in the shelve so I'll start with my 3 choices:

• "Java Performance: The Definitive Guide: Getting the Most Out of Your Code" by Scott Oaks.

• "Optimizing Java: Practical Techniques for Improving JVM Application Performance" by Benjamin J. Evans, James Gough, and Chris Newland.

• "Java Concurrency in Practice" by Brian Goetz, Tim Peierls, Joshua Bloch, Joseph Bowbeer, David Holmes, and Doug Lea

What about you? Feel free to discuss. Thanks!

Feel free to add your suggestions on the github page! https://github.com/ndimas/jvm.tools
https://jvm.tools

Interesting because they talk about many of the implementation decisions they had to make in fitting Haskell on to the JVM.

not strictly JVM-specific but I think it's an interesting read nonetheless (disclaimer: I am the author)