Jonathan Ross

Biography

Jonathan Ross is a developer and a financial engineer at IMC - a technology driven trading firm based in Amsterdam with offices in Chicago, New York and Sydney. Having developed high performance concurrent algorithms in Java and C++ for 20 years, he knows a thing or two about Java performance.

Java 9 performance
There's so much more to Java 9 than modules and a REPL. If you take a peek under the hood, you will discover that there is in fact an awful lot to be excited about, especially in the realm of performance. Major improvements to Strings, great new concurrency features, ahead-of-time compilation, compiler control, and nifty low-level ways for library writers to manipulate variables and weave up new code at run-time, make it hard for your applications not to run run faster in Java 9. In this talk we will take an in-depth look at some of these features, and take them for a spin using JMH.