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Solaris is well known for being a scalable, high-performance operating environment for mission critical applications. Sun is also well known for being the creators of the Java™ programming language and related technology. The strength of the language which makes it easier to develop and deploy internet-based applications has had a temporary liability of performance. The critical challenge for us has been to give the Java™ platform similar properties of the Solaris™ platform in terms of robustness, performance, and scalability. The talk will feature some of the key areas which are beginning to deliver stronger performance such as compilation technology, threading and garbage collection.
David Nelson-Gal has been an engineering manager at Sun Microsystems since 1991. Dave is currently the Director of Java Technology for Sun's Solaris Products Division. His responsibility includes the productization, support and enhancement of the Java™ Platform in the Solaris™ Operating Environment. This includes work focused on performance and quality in Solaris JITs, JVMs, and Java Libraries.
Prior to this experience, Dave managed an advanced development organization focused on creating products in Network-centric computing. Dave has also managed the successful Visual C/C++ Workshop engineering team for Sun Microsystems.
Prior to arriving at Sun, Dave was the Director of Advanced Technology at Ready Systems where he was responsible for producing modern off-the-shelf realtime embedded operating systems and cross-development environments. He was the original architect for RTAda and ARTX, an OS and environment specifically designed for realtime, embedded Ada applications. Before that, he was a member of ROLM's Ada compiler team.
Dave got his MS degree in 1983 from the University of Michigan where he did his research in robotics and computer vision systems.
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