Luis Eduardo de Souza Amorim
With a broad interest in programming language design and implementation, I'm currently a PostDoc at the Australian National University working on memory management and virtual machines. My previous work from my PhD at Delft University of Technology focused on syntax definition formalisms and parsing.
Session
The tension between performance and flexibility is always present when developing new systems. Often, poor performance is unacceptable. But poor flexibility hinders experimentation and evolution, which may lead to bad performance later on. In this talk, we show how we used MMTk.io – a toolkit we are developing that provides language implementers with a powerful garbage collection framework – to implement a flexible (unbaking the cake) and performant (and eating it too) memory manager for Julia.