Thomas Würthinger is a Vice President at Oracle Labs and the GraalVM founder and project lead. Previously, he worked on the Crankshaft optimizing compiler of V8 at Google, and the Maxine research virtual machine at Sun Microsystems. He received a PhD degree from JKU Linz for his research about dynamic code evolution. Currently, he lives in Switzerland near Zürich.

LOCATION: Zürich
KEYWORDS: Language, Technology, Research

SPEAKER: Thomas Würthinger   COMPANY: Oracle

This talk will discuss the best practices for running Java applications with the lowest cost and resource consumption. Specifically, it will demonstrate how to achieve instant startup and minimal memory footprint when using GraalVM native images — programs compiled ahead of time to native executables.

The resulting applications run with deterministic performance and much lower energy consumption. Furthermore, different possible heap settings and their influence on the operational efficiency of the application are shown. Part of the talk will shortly dive deep into what is happening in GraalVM - compiler graphs and assembly code guaranteed!

LANGUAGE: Talk: en / Slides: en

Thomas Würthinger is a Vice President at Oracle Labs and the GraalVM founder and project lead. Previously, he worked on the Crankshaft optimizing compiler of V8 at Google, and the Maxine research virtual machine at Sun Microsystems. He received a PhD degree from JKU Linz for his research about dynamic code evolution. Currently, he lives in Switzerland near Zürich.

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