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Attila Szegedi, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Oracle

Attila Szegedi

Biography: Attila Szegedi

Attila Szegedi is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Oracle. He is also known for his work on several Open Source projects, most notably he is a contributor to Mozilla Rhino, a JavaScript runtime for the JVM, a contributor to Kiji, Twitter's server-optimized Ruby runtime, the author of Dynalink – the dynamic linker framework for languages on the JVM, as well as one of the principal developers of the FreeMarker templating language runtime.

Twitter: @asz

Presentation: Nashorn Under the Hood: Making This Rhinoceros Thunder

Time: Tuesday 12:05 - 12:55 / Location: Grand Ballroom A & B

Nashorn, being part of OpenJDK is in unique position of being a JavaScript runtime embedded in the Java ecosystem. I'll explain some of its under the hood workings (some of them are new in the just released Java 8u40). That understanding will let you get the most performance and functionality out of it when you use it to build Java+JS hybrid services and applications for the JVM.