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Re:Native Clojure with GraalVM by _54qb on Sunday April 29, 2018 @08:36AM (#16951748)
However, I don't see a use case for GraalVM in long-lived server applications. For that, regular JVM clojure will do just fine.

On the other hand, using eval is almost never necessary in small standalone utilities.

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Re:Native Clojure with GraalVM by chrisseaton on Sunday April 29, 2018 @08:42AM (#16951761)
> I don't see a use case for GraalVM in long-lived server applications

GraalVM also includes a better JIT compiler though, which makes long-lived applications much faster. Twitter use it today to run their Scala code.

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Re:Native Clojure with GraalVM by kjeetgill on Monday April 30, 2018 @01:55AM (#16956126)
From Twitter engineer Chris Thalinger's videos[0] it seems like they're using JDK 9 or 10 and graal via JVMCI. Is there more to GraalVM than just using graal with a particular JDK release?

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7yIUkP5LiQ

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Re:Native Clojure with GraalVM by chrisseaton on Monday April 30, 2018 @08:15AM (#16957883)
> Is there more to GraalVM than just using graal with a particular JDK release?

Yeah there's a whole world of different ways you can use Graal.

https://medium.com/graalvm/graalvm-ten-things-12d9111f307d

They're choosing to use the JIT from CE Graal (which they've built themselves), via the released version of JVMCI in a released JDK.

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