[VPM] Tue, 2008 June 3rd, 7pm - June RCSS meeting

Darren Duncan darren at darrenduncan.net
Fri May 30 12:48:48 PDT 2008


This message is forwarded from the Recreational Computer Science Society 
mailing list, plus a slipstreamed correction and addition from Adam. -- 
Darren Duncan

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Subject: [reccompsci] Announcement: June RCSS - Tue, June 3rd 2008, 7:00pm
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 11:12:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: Adam Parkin <pzelnip at gmail.com>
Reply-To: reccompsci at googlegroups.com
To: Recreational Computer Science Society <reccompsci at googlegroups.com>


Hello all, it's that time of the month: the announcement/reminder
about the next monthly
RCSS meeting.

So for speakers this month we have two presentations, one by Chris
Ware (a graduate student here at UVic) on something related to quantum
computing, and one by myself on a paper by M. Anton Ertl on Stack
Caching.

As per tradition, I'm going with the "lets just show up in a room and
hopefully it's not booked" routine.  So meeting place is @ UVic in ECS
130 at 7PM on Tuesday June 3rd, 2008.  If for some reason that room
doesn't work (ie if it's already booked, etc) then our backup room
will be ECS 104 (which IIRC is the opposite end of the 1st floor of
ECS).  So to recap:

Date: Tuesday, June 3rd 2008
Time: 7PM
Place: UVic - ECS 130

To talk:

-- Chris Ware - Something along the lines of Quantum Computing and
cryptography (he is to get back to me over the next day or two with a
more detailed topic)
-- Me (Adam Parkin) - Presentation based upon the paper "Stack Caching
for Interpreters" by M. Anton Ertl which was submitted to the
Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) conference in
1995.  Abstack: An interpreter for a virtual stack machine (such as
the Java virtual machine or .Net runtime) can spend a significant
amount of time fetching values to and from the stack.  The paper
explores a few methods to reduce the overhead of memory accesses by
caching a few of the top items of the instruction stack in registers,
thereby improving execution times.  In particular, I'll be talking
about how this relates to the Java programming language and the Java
virtual machine (JVM).

And of course, if there's anything else someone wants to present, I'm
always open to suggestions (either for this meeting or future ones).
Currently for our July meeting Darren is scheduled to give a talk
related to Muldis, but other than that there are no speakers currently
scheduled for July.  Read an interesting paper?  Seen a cool new
technology?  Why not come give a talk for RCSS about it and share your
wisdom with like-minded computer geeks. :p

One more thing: if you'd like to see the paper that my talk is based
upon, you can find it at:

http://www.csc.uvic.ca/~csc485c/Papers/ertl94sc.pdf

Adam

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