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VM Optimizations for Language Designers

John Pampuch discusses the HotSpot compiler, the history of Java performance, HotSpot development philosophies and challenges, optimization, JVM library improvements, and tips for better performance.

John Pampuch
on Dec 31, 2008

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Fast Bytecodes for Funny Languages

Cliff Click discusses how to optimize generated bytecode for running on the JVM. Click analyzes and reports on several JVM languages and shows several places where they could increase performance.

Cliff Click
on Dec 02, 2008

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33:46
Clojure

Rich Hickey discusses Clojure features and syntax, example code, functional programming, concurrency semantics, transactions, software transactional memory, agents, implementation and pain points.

Rich Hickey
on Nov 20, 2008

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29:48
The Maxine VM

Bernd Mathiske discusses Maxine VM, Java compatibility, swapping major VM components, research areas, Object handling, code examples, optimizing compiler, snippets, bytecode generation, JNI and JIT.

Bernd Mathiske
on Nov 16, 2008

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58:11
Running PHP on the JVM with P8

Robert Nicholson discusses the reasons to bring PHP to the JVM, an overview of PHP and P8, PHP characteristics, how PHP functions are compiled, InvokeDynamic and PHP Functions.

Rob Nicholson
on Oct 31, 2008

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24:45
How The JVM Spec Came To Be

James Gosling discusses Java's creation, how users use a product in very unusual ways, Java as a compromise between C and scripting languages, the Java object model, primitives and optimization tricks

James Gosling
on Oct 29, 2008

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01:01:51
Scala: Bringing Future Languages to the JVM

In this presentation, Lex Spoon discusses the Scala programming language. Topics covered include the origin of Scala, the philosophy behind Scala, the Scala feature set, Scala examples and DSLs.

Lex Spoon
on Mar 21, 2008

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43:39
Java EE Class Loading Architectures

Ernie Svehla reviews Java Class Loading including a comparison of major appservers, how to package Java EE apps, and common class loading problems such as ClassNotFoundException, or NoDefFound Errors.

Ernie Svehla
on Apr 05, 2007

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01:00:11
Dynamically Typed Languages for the JVM

Gilad Bracha discusses improved support for dynamic langages on the JVM via the new invokedynamic bytecode and through improved support for hot-swapping.

Gilad Bracha
on Mar 23, 2007

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33:28