Oracle Releases GraalVM 20.1 Virtual Machine With Some Big Improvements

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Oracle Releases GraalVM 20.1 Virtual Machine With Some Big Improvements

Oracle today released GraalVM 20.1 as their latest big feature update to this virtual machine implemented in Java that also supports not only JIT compilation but ahead-of-time compilation for Java software as well as supporting an LLVM runtime and other languages...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Oracle-GraalVM-20.1-Released

[nuetzel]

Java™ as base...

[caligula]

Java™ as base...

Should be rewritten in JavaScript?

[brauliobo]

JS, Python and Ruby benchmarks would be appreciated

[arcivanov]

JS, Python and Ruby benchmarks would be appreciated

And functional comparison with CPython and PyPy. That is if it only works in benchmarks it doesn't really exist per se.

[Raka555]

Phoronix: Oracle Releases GraalVM 20.1 Virtual Machine With Some Big Improvements

... but ahead-of-time compilation for Java software...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...-20.1-Released

Does this mean you can make native binaries ?

[galaxycode]

Does this mean you can make native binaries ?

https://www.graalvm.org/docs/referen.../native-image/

[asoltesz]

Does this mean you can make native binaries ?

Yes it can create binaries so you dont need a JVM on the target system.

[bug77]

Does this mean you can make native binaries ?

Sort of.
The native tool is not actually part of GraalVM, it's a separate download. And it's experimental, it only works on a handful of projects atm. Last I checked, it could only target Linux on x86_64, I don't know how much has changed in the meantime.

But when it works, it works wonders

[sanne]

Sort of.
The native tool is not actually part of GraalVM, it's a separate download. And it's experimental, it only works on a handful of projects atm. Last I checked, it could only target Linux on x86_64, I don't know how much has changed in the meantime.

But when it works, it works wonders

It's no longer experimental, and Red Hat is contributing many significant improvements as well.

It support much more than x86_64 now - including support for ARM64 targets.

Many great projects have started to take advantage of this native capability - just have a look at https://quarkus.io/ to see how we make the native-image compiler more accessible and productive. (disclaimer : I work on Quarkus)