Re: CFV: New Project: Graal

Vote: yes

* Douglas Simon <doug.simon@...> [2012-02-03 09:55]:
> I hereby propose the creation of the Graal Project with Thomas Wuerthinger [1]
> as the Lead and hotspot as the sponsoring Group.
> 
> The goal of the Graal project is to design a dynamic compiler in Java that
> produces excellent code quality without compromising compile time and
> memory usage by the JVM. The origin and starting point for this project
> would be the Graal compiler from the Maxine code base. For more detail,
> see the proposal [2] sent out last week.
> 
> To ensure the broadest possible collaboration between potential contributors
> the project will maintain one or more code repositories derived from the
> OpenJDK HotSpot repository [3] and a developers' mailing list. The Graal
> code repository and developers' mailing list will be under the GPL license
> (GPL) version 2 with the OpenJDK Assembly Exception.
> 
> Thomas will lead the project. He works for Oracle Labs and is the author of
> the Dynamic Code Evolution VM [4] and the Ideal Graph Visualizer [5].
> He also worked on the Crankshaft/V8 optimizing compiler [6] and implemented
> an algorithm for array bounds check elimination [7] for the HotSpot
> Client compiler.
> 
> Based on previous significant contributions to the project's initial
> source base, the initial committers will be:
> Gilles Duboscq
> Doug Simon
> Lukas Stadler
> Christian Wimmer