Link Details

Tony Printezis, is a Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems, based in Burlington, Massachusetts. He joined Sun in 2002 after a two-and-a-half year collaboration while he was a member of the faculty of the Department of Computing Science of the University of Glasgow in Scotland. He obtained a BSc(Hons) in 1995, and a Ph.D. in 2000, both from the University of Glasgow. Tony has been contributing to the Java HotSpot Virtual Machine, as well as the Java Real-Time System, since the beginning of 2006. Before that, he worked at Sun Labs for three-plus years. He spends most of his time working on dynamic memory management for the Java platform, concentrating on performance, scalability, responsiveness, parallelism, and visualization of garbage collectors.