Erik Corry
Founder Toit
Erik has worked for over 20 years on VMs and language runtimes. Starting with the object-oriented BETA language and including many years on the core team for the V8 JavaScript engine. Recently he has been at Toit.io, bringing high level programming to IoT and embedded devices. Garbage collection algorithms and regular expressions keep him up at night. He grew up in England, but lives in Denmark..
Talks I've Given
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Embedded Programming Dragged into the 21st Century
Featuring Erik Corry
What does it mean for a language to be designed for embedded or IoT use? An insider takes a look at the guts of the Toit system to see the design choices that minimize memory use and maximize performance for a programming environment that has a 21st Century feel on fingernail-sized devices.
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Building Your Own Compiler The Slightly Easier Way With LLVM
Featuring Erik Corry
The rise of LLVM has made it possible to write a language with its own little compiler, making use of the many high-performance backends and the extensive compiler API. In this presentation we’ll show how to build a domain specific language with the performance of C++ and the eclecticism of...
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