2008 LightningTalks
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Jump to navigationJump to searchLightning 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. |