By Patrick Smacchia
ISBN 0-9766132-2-0
Jan 2006 (896 pages)

Page 92

...e machine language, the JIT compiler does a series of validations to ensure the body of the method is valid. To determine if a method is valid, the compiler checks the flow of IL instructions and verifies the content of stack to detect invalid memory accesses. If the code fails the verification, the...

Page 530

...er process, named client, creates another socket. The client can exist on the same machine or on a remote machine. The client supplies the IP address/Port pair identifying the socket of the server. Using this information, the client connects on the socket of the server, which as for effect of unbloc...

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Let us precise that val2is at the top of the stack and that val1is right below. In addition, the val1 and val2values are unstacked and an integer value (1 if the comparison is true, 0 if it is false) is added to the top of the stack.

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...create a first instance of Fooand we will call a method on this instance to go through the envoy, server and object region message sinks. To go through the message sinks of the client region, we create a second instance of Foo and will call it from the first instance. There are three contexts in pla...

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...standard compiler and replaces the JIT mechanism. The real name for ngen.exeis Native Image Generator. The ngen.exetool is to be used when you notice that the JIT mechanism introduces a significant drop in performance, generally during the startup of an application. However, note that the regular co...