Improving the performance of ScalaC is an ongoing mission by a number of people. Optimising an application as complex and subtle as the Scala compiler is an interesting adventure. This talk is a fun romp through the world of compilers, performance measurement, optimisation and bytecode. On this journey we will highlight the unexpected challenges, opportunities and skeletons so far discovered.
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Rory Graves
Rory spends his life fighting to find a balance between writing ugly high performance code and beautiful maintainable code. He fights from the trenches to make software better, contributing to open source and has has worked across the entire gamut of software from building a JVM to optimising grid computing.