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What a JVM Provides: Garbage Collection, JITs and More

Google TechTalks · Talk · 53 min · 2011 · YouTube title: A JVM Does That?
Why it's here

A repeated recommendation for anyone interested in VMs, with Click's talks regarded as unusually informative on JVMs, JITs and the user/kernel boundary.

What it covers

Cliff Click of Azul Systems asks what a JVM is supposed to do, in a Google Tech Talk from 2011. He covers the services a JVM provides, such as garbage collection and compilation, and the messy reality beneath the abstractions.