JVM Internals

Found this amazing post about JVM Internals – JVM Internals

Some excerpts:

In the Hotspot JVM there is a direct mapping between a Java Thread and a native operating system Thread.

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Another great source
https://www.artima.com/insidejvm/ed2/jvm6.html

The Java virtual machine specification is silent on how objects should be represented on the heap. Object representation–an integral aspect of the overall design of the heap and garbage collector–is a decision of implementation designers