Project Lilliput - Beyond Compact Headers

Presented by Roman Kennke - Principal Engineer (AWS) during the *JVM Language Summit (August 2024 - Santa Clara, CA).

Lilliput is all about reducing footprint by making Java objects smaller - specifically the object headers. This video gives a short overview of how this is achieved and then covers some advanced techniques that will enable to make object headers even smaller.

Make sure to check the    • JVM Language Summit 2024   playlist.

Resources
• Project Lilliput ➤ https://openjdk.org/projects/lilliput/
• JVMLS 2023 Lilliput Overview ➤    • Project Lilliput - Compressed Object ...  
• ObjectMonitor Mapping ➤ https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8...
• JEP 450: Compact Object Headers ➤ https://openidk.org/jeps/450
• Lilliput 2 ➤ https://github.com/openjdk/lilliput/t...

Tags #Java #OpenJDK #GC