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|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. :-) | |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. :-) | ||
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| + | |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? | ||
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| + | |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 | ||
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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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Latest revision as of 14:10, 15 September 2009
Lightning talks are held in the afternoon (~16:30-17:30).
| Title | Presenter | Time & Place | Audience | Summary |
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| 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. |
