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The Ghost in the Virtual Machine: A Reference to References

Bob Lee (Square Inc. )
2:20pm Monday, 07/25/2011
Java: Trends
 Location: A107/108
Average rating: ****.
(4.29, 7 ratings)

Ever wondered whether you should use a weak reference or a phantom reference? If you answered “yes” or “phantom who?,” this is the talk for you. We’ll cover:

  • The java.lang.ref API
  • Its failure modes
  • Reference handling patterns, APIs, and best practices
  • MapMaker: a concurrent map builder with support for strong, soft, or weak keys and/or values and more.

Walk in with a working knowledge of the language, and walk out an expert in references, referents, reclamation and other garbage collection necromancy.

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Bob Lee

Square Inc.

Bob Lee is the CTO of Square Inc. Prior to Square, Bob led Android’s core library development, created the Jolt award-winning Guice framework, and led JSR 330 Dependency Injection for Java.

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Tory Zundel
07/27/2011 4:39pm PDT

Good presentation, good information. However, It seemed that there was too much to cover in a such a short time