First Date with GraalVM (JUG IL)

GraalVM - the newest JVM extension generated a lot of buzz in the industry, already earning the trust of such industry giants as Twitter. The promises GraalVM gives definitely sound good: a better performance, ability to run polyglot languages and more. In this talk we’ll learn what exactly is GraalVM, what hides behind the scene, how come GraalVM is technically able to fulfil the promises it gave, and should we jump on the GraalVM hype train too.

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1. Software Engineer at Wix pijusn@wix.com twitter@pijusnav linkedin/pijusnavickas github.com/pijusn First Date with GraalVM
2. Wix Engineering Locations Ukraine Israel Lithuania Vilnius Kiev Dnipro Tel-Aviv Be’er Sheva
3. Once upon a time in the world of Oracle...
4. JVM </> 0110 Java Scala Ceylon ... Bytecode Native
5. JVM byte[] byte[] byte[]
6. JVM byte[] byte[] byte[] JVM
7. JVM byte[] byte[] byte[] VM C2 Written in C
10. JVM byte[] byte[] byte[] VM ??? Java-Level JVM Compiler Interface
11. Graal is just a compiler rewrite in Java KISS Keep It Stupid Simple
12. YAY, new compiler!
13. Performance
14. https://youtu.be/ZbccuoaLChk?t=33m19s
15. https://youtu.be/ZbccuoaLChk?t=33m19s
16. Can I use it?
17. YES, YOU CAN! JDK 9 ships with Graal: • Used by AOT by default. • Can be enabled for JIT. -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+EnableJVMCI -XX:+UseJVMCICompiler Also JDK 10: -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+EnableJVMCI -XX:+UseJVMCICompiler -Djvmci.Compiler=graal
18. Or use one of GraalVM bundles
20. Graal JIT compiler GraalVM JVM + Graal, Truffle and a couple language implementations. Truffle Soon, please wait.
21. JVM byte[] byte[] byte[] VM Graal
22. JVM byte[] byte[] byte[]
23. JVM byte[] byte[] byte[] byte[]
24. Graal is a language-agnostic compiler KISS Keep It Stupid Simple
25. JVM byte[] byte[] byte[] byte[] Truffle
26. JVM
27. It still sucks, right?
28. Wanna see something cool?
29. https://youtu.be/wBegU4d4GRc?t=23m40s
30. It's alright, I guess.
31. https://youtu.be/wBegU4d4GRc?t=36m11s
32. https://youtu.be/wBegU4d4GRc?t=36m52s
33. Wall of Text Supporting Legacy Projects That one library Language development Custom optimizations Cloud PaaS
34. Getting it on your machine
35. /oracle/graal
36. /oracle/graal
39. Thank You pijusn@wix.com twitter@pijusnav linkedin/pijusnavickas github.com/pijusn ( https://bit.ly/2B7K6w6 )