A friendlier visualization of Java's JIT compiler based on control flowThe previous post introduced the Ideal Graph Visualizer (IGV), a tool to visualize the inner workings of OpenJDK’s main just-in-time compiler. This post focuses on a new IGV feature, to be released in OpenJDK 19, to make it easier for compiler experts to maintain and extend the compiler and for advanced Java users to get a grasp of it. The rough sea of nodes OpenJDK’s main just-in-time (JIT) compi
