conferences | speakers | series

Project Loom: Advanced concurrency for fun and profit

home

Project Loom: Advanced concurrency for fun and profit
FOSDEM 2020

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.

Speakers: Andrew Haley