Talk Proposal: Project Loom

[Ron Pressler]

Hi.
I propose the following talk for the Free Java Developer Room at FOSDEM 2019.

Title: 

Project Loom: Weaving executions

Abstract:

OpenJDK’s Project Loom's mission is to make it easier to write, debug, profile and
maintain concurrent applications under heavy load. Threads are a natural and
convenient concurrency construct which is being supplanted by less convenient,
asynchronous abstractions because threads' implementation in the OS kernel is
insufficient for meeting performance demands, and are wasteful in computing
resources. 

Project Loom will introduce fibers as lightweight, efficient threads,
managed by the Java runtime, that let developers use the same simple abstraction
but with significantly better performance and lower footprint. Fibers are
implemented in the JDK libraries on top of multi-prompt, stackful delimited
continuations in the JVM. This session will present the current status and
challenges of the project -- both of implementation and design -- one year into
the project.

Bio:

Ron Pressler is the tech lead for OpenJDK's Project Loom. Before coming to
Oracle, he led the development of Quasar, an open-source Java fibers library.

Microblog: https://twitter.com/pressron

Blog: https://pron.github.io/

Recording: Fine


Ron