CFV: New Project: Lilliput

Mario Torre neugens at redhat.com
Tue Mar 16 16:52:55 UTC 2021


Vote: yes!

Cheers,
Mario

On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 5:49 PM Roman Kennke <rkennke at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> I hereby propose the creation of the Lilliput Project with
> Roman Kennke as the Lead and Hotspot as the sponsoring
> Group(s).
>
> Lilliput's primary goal is to explore techniques to downsize Java object
> headers in the Hotspot JVM from currently 128 bits to 64 bits or even
> less. This will reduce Java's memory footprint and we expect it to also
> improve performance across most if not all workloads.
>
> Roman Kennke is a long-time OpenJDK contributor. He started contributing
> to Swing and Java2D in 2007 and co-lead the Caciocavallo project (now
> de-funct), contributed to Thermostat, and also worked on Zero
> interpreter and Shark compiler. His primary occupation since 2013 is the
> Shenandoah GC project, which produced the JEP 304: Garbage Collection
> Interface and JEP 189: JEP 189: Shenandoah: A Low-Pause-Time Garbage
> Collector.
>
> Suggested initial committers: John Rose, Dave Dice, Andrew Dinn, Andrew
> Haley, Erik Österlund, Aleksey Shipilev, Coleen Phillimore, Stefan
> Karlsson, Per Liden, Thomas Stuefe, Gil Tene, David Holmes, Kim Barrett,
> Thomas Schatzl
>
> Votes are due by March, 31st, 2021.
>
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> motion.  Votes must be cast in the open on the discuss list.
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>
> For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [2].
>
> Roman Kennke
>
> [1] https://openjdk.java.net/census#members
> [2] https://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project-vote
>


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