Jikes RVM - History

History

  • 1997 November, the Jalapeño project starts as an internal research project at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center.
  • 1999, 2000, research papers describing novel aspects of Jikes RVM are published by IBM researchers and several universities are given access to the source code.
  • 2001 October, Jikes RVM version 2 is released as an open source project under the Common Public License. The release supports PowerPC and Intel architectures and a range of different garbage collection algorithms.
  • 2002, Jikes RVM 2.2 is released with the precise garbage collectors now refactored into the popular Memory Management Toolkit precise garbage collectors.
  • 2004, Jikes RVM 2.4 is released with increased stability and performance partly, particular focus was made of running eclipse.
  • 2007, Jikes RVM 2.9 development starts with the code base extensively refactored to use features of Java 5.0 and to use an ant build system.
  • 2008, Jikes RVM 3.0 released marking the end of 2.9 development and new stability in the code base.
  • 2009, Jikes RVM 3.1 released under the Eclipse Public License (EPL) with significant improvements over the performance of version 3.0.1 and a switch to native threading.

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