Re:GraalVM
by jariel on Monday August 10, 2020 @12:12AM
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It's amazing how badly certain companies consistently put their foot in their mouths and cannot even give a basic explanation of what their products to.
To compound the inanity - Graal is also the name of a new compiler used in the newer JVMs, in addition to the name of a completely different kind of 'JRE/SDK'.
GraalVM allows for polygot execution of a number of languages: Java, Javascript, Python, and anything compiled to LLVM bitcode.
It runs them all 'side by side' so there's no translation barrier when interacting between languages.
GraalVM also comes with a native compiler that allows you to have much faster startup time, though it comes at the cost of not getting more advanced runtime optimisations.
As far as 'performance' I don't think there is anything fundamentally different form the newer JVMs.
To compound the inanity - Graal is also the name of a new compiler used in the newer JVMs, in addition to the name of a completely different kind of 'JRE/SDK'.
GraalVM allows for polygot execution of a number of languages: Java, Javascript, Python, and anything compiled to LLVM bitcode.
It runs them all 'side by side' so there's no translation barrier when interacting between languages.
GraalVM also comes with a native compiler that allows you to have much faster startup time, though it comes at the cost of not getting more advanced runtime optimisations.
As far as 'performance' I don't think there is anything fundamentally different form the newer JVMs.