Difference between revisions of "2008 LightningTalks"

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Lightning talks are held in the afternoon (~16:30-17:30).

Title	Presenter	Time & Place	Audience	Summary
Optimizing for Agility	Stuart Halloway	Day One, 4:30?	People who prioritize developer performance over language performance	Agility requires smooth adaptation to change. With multiple JVM languages to choose from, you should pick an agile language for most dev, and drop to a performant language occasionally. I'll tell you which is which. :-)
Language Addicts Anonymous	John D. Mitchell	Day Two, 4:45	Humans and meat-puppets	As language and platform creators, are we actually attacking and solving the real problems? Or, are we addicted to playing in the same old ghetto?
Azul Performance Analysis Tool	Cliff Click	Day Two, 4:45	Why is your code slow?	Debugged lack-of-inlining in JRuby and lack-of-loop-unrolling in ASM in about 1/2hr each. Fixnum/BigNum costs are high, but perhaps not for why you might expect (it's NOT the GC costs, it's allocation and final fields). Academic accounts available upon request; email cliffc@azulsystems.com
Duby: A Ruby-like replacement for Java	Charles Oliver Nutter	????	Why no current language can be the next Java	I am working on Ruby, which is a language that borrows Ruby's syntax but adds static typing, local type inference, and a very flexible, pluggable inference engine and compiler to allow much faster execution. I will enumerate the reasons why I want this language, the goals for it, and the reasons why no existing languages scratch this itch.

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+|Duby: A Ruby-like replacement for Java
+|Charles Oliver Nutter
+|????
+|Why no current language can be the next Java
+|I am working on Ruby, which is a language that borrows Ruby's syntax but adds static typing, local type inference, and a very flexible, pluggable inference engine and compiler to allow much faster execution. I will enumerate the reasons why I want this language, the goals for it, and the reasons why no existing languages scratch this itch.
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