Welcome, Maurizio Cimadamore
Jonathan Gibbons
Jonathan.Gibbons at Sun.COM
Fri Dec 7 09:41:52 PST 2007
Compiler folk,
I am delighted to announce that Maurizio Cimadamore has recently
joined Sun's Language Tools team and will be working on javac. He will
also be a member of the OpenJDK Compiler Group, so you can expect to
see and hear more from him here :-)
He comes to us from the University of Bologna, Italy, where he worked
on the studying language design issues, and reification of generic
types. To this end, he developed a prototype compiler called EGO
(based on the research work of Mirko Viroli, his PhD tutor); this
compiler is an extension of javac allowing generic types to be better
supported at runtime so that type-dependent operations (such as cast
and instanceof) can be applied to generic types too without any risk
of heap pollution. Starting from this work he then developed a
prototype of a JVM with runtime support for generic types exploiting
the same reification scheme exploited within the EGO compiler.
-- Jon
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