Re: Tungsten and sun.misc.Unsafe

2015-08-21 Thread Marek Kolodziej
ll the > use of Unsafe with a newer alternative in one release if absolutely > necessary (the actual coding takes only a day or two). > > > > On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 5:29 AM, Marek Kolodziej > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I attended the Tungsten-related presentations at

Tungsten and sun.misc.Unsafe

2015-08-21 Thread Marek Kolodziej
Hello, I attended the Tungsten-related presentations at Spark Summit (by Josh Rosen) and at Big Data Scala (by Matei Zaharia). Needless to say, this project holds great promise for major performance improvements. At Josh's talk, I heard about the use of sun.misc.Unsafe as a way of achieving some

Re: Why Scala?

2014-05-29 Thread Marek Kolodziej
guages that were traditionally not on the JVM now are (Jython, JRuby, etc.). Marek On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Marek Kolodziej wrote: > I would disagree that Scala is controversial. It's less controversial than > Java was when it came out in 1995. Scala's been around

Re: Why Scala?

2014-05-29 Thread Marek Kolodziej
I would disagree that Scala is controversial. It's less controversial than Java was when it came out in 1995. Scala's been around since 2004, and over the past couple of years, it saw major adoption at LinkedIn, Twitter, FourSquare, Netflix, Tumblr, The Guardian, Airbnb, Meetup.com, Coursera, UBS,