Along with the increasingly important runtime engines pervasive in our daily-life computing, there is a strong demand from the software community for a solid presentation on the design and implementation of modern virtual machines, including the Java virtual machine, JavaScript engine and Android execution engine. The community expects to see not only formal algorithm description, but also pragmatic code snippets; to understand not only research topics, but also engineering solutions. This book meets these demands by providing a unique description that combines high level design with low level implementations and academic advanced topics with commercial solutions.

随着越来越重要的运行时引擎在我们日常生活计算中的普及，软件社区强烈要求对现代虚拟机的设计和实现进行可靠的演示，包括Java虚拟机、JavaScript引擎和Android执行引擎。社区希望看到的不仅仅是正式的算法描述，还有实用的代码片段；不仅要了解研究课题，还要了解工程解决方案。本书通过提供一个独特的描述来满足这些需求，该描述结合了高水平设计和低水平实现，以及学术高级主题和商业解决方案。