Project Loom - Talk proposal

[Andrew Haley]

Title: Project Loom: Advanced concurrency for fun and profit

Abstract:

Project Loom, an OpenJDK project, is "intended to explore, incubate
and deliver Java VM features and APIs built on top of them for the
purpose of supporting easy-to-use, high-throughput lightweight
concurrency and new programming models on the Java platform."  These
feature include Lightweight Threads, delimited continuations, and
tail-call elimination.

The speaker, a Project Loom team member, will describe the project in
depth, in particular the gnarly details of how coroutine and
continuation scheduling mechanism works, and a new feature, Scoped
Locals.

Recording me on audio and/or video: I'm cool with that.

Bio:

Andrew Haley is a Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat. He leads the Java
team there, the OpenJDK 8 and 11 Updates projects and was a co-author
of the 64-bit OpenJDK ARM port.

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Andrew Haley  (he/him)
Java Platform Lead Engineer
Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com>
https://keybase.io/andrewhaley
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