FOSDEM '08 is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community, for the community. Its goal is to provide Free and Open Source developers a place to meet.

   

Speaker: Peter Kessler

Event Track Day Room Start time Duration
VM Rumble, Porting and Architectures Free Java Saturday AW1.121 17:30 01:30

Peter Kessler

Peter Kessler has been implementing languages and their runtime systems since the late 1970's, when he was an author of the Berkeley Pascal compiler (and several other Berkeley Unix bits). He then moved to Xerox PARC where he worked on the Cedar language, operating system, and development environment. Peter has been at Sun since 1990, working on experimental operating systems, distributed programming, and the Java(TM) platform.

He is currently the technical lead for the garbage collector in the HotSpot(TM) Java virtual machine. He is not an academic garbage collector: he just likes high-performance multi-threaded systems that have to work perfectly.