CFV: New Project: Lilliput

[Reingruber, Richard]

Vote: yes

Richard.

-----Original Message-----
From: announce <announce-retn at openjdk.java.net> On Behalf Of Roman Kennke
Sent: Dienstag, 16. März 2021 14:31
To: announce at openjdk.java.net
Subject: CFV: New Project: Lilliput

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

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Roman Kennke

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