http://tech.puredanger.com Alex Miller's technical blog Thu, 15 May 2008 04:45:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hey, I'm still recovering from JavaOne - had a great time (no virus for me). :) I know a lot of people were taking pictures during my talk and other talks. Does anyone out there have pictures of me? If so, I'd love to see them. ... http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/05/14/javaone-2008-pictures/ This talk was by Gil Tene and Michael Wolf from Azul. Azul has their own concurrent garbage collector although this talk focused mostly on the ideas and concepts of concurrent collectors in general and didn't really dive into their own collector in detail (my only real disappointment in an ... http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/05/09/javaone-concurrent-garbage-collectors/ Cliff has been working for a while on developing highly concurrent data structures for use on the Azul hardware which supports 700+ hardware threads. We're going through the transition right now from 1 to small numbers of cores. Cliff is trying to address the next order of magnitude. ... http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/05/09/javaone-cliff-click-on-a-scalable-non-blocking-coding-style/ The Sun Hotspot guys have been working on a new garbage collector to replace CMS called G1. This presentation went over the differences between the old CMS and the new G1 collectors and also included some perspective from a guy at the Chicago Board of Options Exchange who has ... http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/05/09/javaone-g1-garbage-collector/ Thursday night was a lot of fun. I guess Smashmouth was playing but I don't know anyone that went - anyone hear how it went? I was ready to relax a bit after my talk so it was a fun night. I went to dinner with some ... http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/05/09/javaone-bof-beer-night/