Michał Cierniak

For those of you who have not updated your feeds to my new blog , I wanted to mention two conferences I am involved in. You can read more about them in these two posts: 2006 International Conference on Principles and Practices of Programming in Java 2007...

I am moving my blog to my own site . In my personal blog I will not be writing much about computer technology (at least not for a while), so if you are looking for posts related to computers, virtual machines, Rotor or CLR, you will probably not find...

My most recent post was about LIL (Low-level Intermediate Language). I realized recently that this is an obvious acronym to use in the context of a lightweight computer language and just for fun I searched the web for "LIL" in the context of terms related...

I have recently put together a set of slides about LIL (Low-level Intermediate Language) and gave a talk at Microsoft. This work was done before I joined Microsoft: LIL was developed by the ORP ( Open Runtime Platform ) team at Intel. LIL was addressing...

One of the cool new things we are doing in the security push is the conversion of all uses of potentially unsafe CRT (C Runtime) functions to their new, safe counterparts. When we think of unsafe CRT functions, we usually think of string manipulation...

I have been recently coordinating much of the efforts on the CLR dev team related to the security push. The security push is a period of a few weeks for all groups involved in Whidbey to let us focus on making Whidbey more secure. There was recently a...

Often when I talk to people I mention something I did in the past and I want to refer them to a paper I published. Since I no longer had a research web page, whenever this happened last year, I had to look for the paper on my computer and send a pointer...

A very interesting Microsoft Research project called Singularity has recently acquired a public web page . This project is interesting for many reasons but the fact that it is written in MSIL is most relevant to what I usually write about in my blog.

I have decided to try out the new blogging infastructure at MSN Spaces. I'm unlikely to maintain a personal blog but I set up a blog yesterday to try it out. It is a pretty nice site. I like the editing of your space that doesn't require writing any code...

VEE is a new conference on execution environments (aka virtual machines). The conference is the result of merging the USENIX VM Symposium and the ACM SIGPLAN IVME Workshop. You can read more about it at the conference web site . Both the VM Symposium...

Open source courses based on .NET are a great resource both for creating courses at other universities and for people who simply want to use the materials to learn something on their own about either .NET in general or Rotor. I know of two such courses...

I wrote recently about Ben Zorn’s benchmarks . And now I’ve just found out about a web page with performance comparisons of JVM and CLR implementations: Kazuyuki Shudo who has been posting for many years performance comparisons of various JVMs has now...

I've been looking this week at presentation from the Workshop on the Future of Virtual Execution Environments hosted by IBM Research two weeks ago. Most of the presentations are online . Reading through the slides you can get a good idea of what different...

CGO stands for a rather long " 2005 International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization with special emphasis on feedback-directed and runtime optimization ". The deadline for submitting papers is September 13, 2004. As usually, CGO is co-located...

To date there has been no standard set of benchmarks that do something meaningful, run on Rotor and execute long enough to enable performance measurements. Standard benchmarks are very important for publishing research results because they make easier...

IVNET’05 (Conference of Innovative Views of .NET Technologies) is another conference related to CLI. Its scope is actually much larger but the CFP lists a few areas relevant to my Rotor blog. The two most obvious ones are programming languages and...

I returned yesterday from the MSR Academic Days . These events were quite interesting. Organizers of the event in Portugal made the slides used for presentations available on-line . Slides for my Rotor presentations are there . In addition to Rotor...

As mentioned earlier , we have the final list of researchers awarded grants for proposed work related to Rotor. The list is now public . Check it out: there are many very exciting projects there.

Jan has just announced that he created a project with the modifications needed to build and run Rotor on versions of MacOS, FreeBSD and Windows that were released since Rotor was shipped. This servicing project is available at http://servicing.sscli.net...

I will be giving talks about Rotor next week in Vilamoura in Portugal and the week after that in Barcelona in Spain . If you are interested in Rotor and will be around there, let me know even if you will not attend these events.

Vance Morrison will talk about CLR performance at the IVME (Interpreters, Virtual Machines and Emulators) workshop in June. This should be a very interesting talk. This workshop is co-located with PLDI (Programming Language Design and Implementation)...

Last Thursday I went to the Birds-Of-A-Feather session about Rotor at the Virtual Machine (VM'04) conference . There were over a dozen attendees. Most people haven't done much work with Rotor yet and they were there out of curiosity. I managed to write...

I wanted to remind you about the Birds-of-a-Feather session devoted to Rotor at the VM'04 conference this week. The BOF is scheduled for Thursday, May 6, 7:30 p.m.–10:00 p.m. You can find a description at http://www.usenix.org/events/vm04/bofs.html...

This MSDN online guide to performance tuning for .NET is excellent. I love it when someone puts together so much information in a nicely organized way.

One of the interesting features of CLR is the ability to control which version of a given assembly is used by an application. This mechanism is quite powerful and I thought I would create a concrete simple example to illustrate the basic concepts. My...