Golightly: High-Performance Application Virtualisation in Go

GoLightlyhigh-performance application virtualisation in Go

Eleanor McHugh

http://golightly.games-with-brains.net/

Friday, 24 September 2010

goa systems language by google

productivity, performance, concurrency

lighter than Java, safer than C

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virtualisationdesign machines to suit particular problems

implement these machines in software

compile programs to run on these machines

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inspirationmodern processor architectures

concurrent control systems

FPGAs

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perspirationiterative empirical method

explore - implement - test - benchmark

evolve towards elegance

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featurestype-driven decoupled instructions

runtime configurable instruction dispatch

code mobility

vector and stream operations

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benefitsefficient use of resources

leverage multicore

scale to multiple hosts

serialise & duplicate runtime state

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artefactsopen-source library

example virtual machines

high-level language runtimes

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a view to the futurespeculative loading

runtime code rewriting and optimisation

JIT compilation

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GoLightlyhigh-performance application virtualisation in Go

Eleanor McHugh

http://golightly.games-with-brains.net/

Friday, 24 September 2010