9 Feb 22:59
Re: CFV: New Project: Graal
Vote: yes * Douglas Simon <doug.simon@...> [2012-02-03 09:55]: > I hereby propose the creation of the Graal Project with Thomas Wuerthinger [1] > as the Lead and hotspot as the sponsoring Group. > > The goal of the Graal project is to design a dynamic compiler in Java that > produces excellent code quality without compromising compile time and > memory usage by the JVM. The origin and starting point for this project > would be the Graal compiler from the Maxine code base. For more detail, > see the proposal [2] sent out last week. > > To ensure the broadest possible collaboration between potential contributors > the project will maintain one or more code repositories derived from the > OpenJDK HotSpot repository [3] and a developers' mailing list. The Graal > code repository and developers' mailing list will be under the GPL license > (GPL) version 2 with the OpenJDK Assembly Exception. > > Thomas will lead the project. He works for Oracle Labs and is the author of > the Dynamic Code Evolution VM [4] and the Ideal Graph Visualizer [5]. > He also worked on the Crankshaft/V8 optimizing compiler [6] and implemented > an algorithm for array bounds check elimination [7] for the HotSpot > Client compiler. > > Based on previous significant contributions to the project's initial > source base, the initial committers will be: > Gilles Duboscq > Doug Simon > Lukas Stadler > Christian Wimmer(Continue reading)
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