Re:Ten Things You Can Do with GraalVM (2018)
by manojlds on Friday July 14, 2023 @02:56PM
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Buzz around GraalVM died very quickly though. I had high hopes for it and innovation based on it.
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I still have high hopes. But man, the pace of development on this project is slow.
I was first introduced via TruffleRuby. But since then it's become less clear to me how viable TruffleRuby is versus JRuby.
Re:Ten Things You Can Do with GraalVM (2018)
by kaba0 on Saturday July 15, 2023 @02:25AM
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How is it slow? At least compared to similar kind of projects? It is most definitely not a CRUD app you can just throw more devs at.
The project is quite young and already has a JS interpreter that is on-par with V8 when warmed up, and a Ruby interpreter that is roughly 3x faster then the next fastest one. Oh and in the meanwhile, they can run optimizations across language boundaries, that’s just insanely cool!
Sure, the good performance is partially due to the underlying JVM that has seen plenty of development time, but I think that Graal develops in a decent pace.