Presentations

• Posted by Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert  on  Dec 09, 2013
  Fast and Dynamic

  Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert discusses making dynamic languages faster providing various examples of optimizations: SmallTalk, LISP machine, Google V8 and others.

  Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert

  on  Dec 09, 2013

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• Posted by Avi Bryant  on  Dec 02, 2009
  Failure: An Illustrated Guide

  Avi Bryant explains the iterative process that led to the concept, implementation, and UI of Trendly (http://trendly.com/ ), using Smalltalk, Javascript, Ruby and Java in the process.

  Avi Bryant

  on  Dec 02, 2009

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• Posted by James Gosling  on  Oct 29, 2008
  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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