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Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800564909

Length 360 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

LLVM

Concepts

High Performance Programming

Author (1):

A B Vijay Kumar

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: The Evolution of JVM

2. Chapter 1: Evolution of Java Virtual Machine FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: JIT, HotSpot, and GraalJIT

4. Section 2: Getting Up and Running with GraalVM – Architecture and Implementation

5. Chapter 3: GraalVM Architecture

6. Chapter 4: Graal Just-In-Time Compiler

7. Chapter 5: Graal Ahead-of-Time Compiler and Native Image

8. Section 3: Polyglot with Graal

9. Chapter 6: Truffle for Multi-language (Polyglot) support

10. Chapter 7: GraalVM Polyglot – JavaScript and Node.js

11. Chapter 8: GraalVM Polyglot – Java on Truffle, Python, and R

12. Chapter 9: GraalVM Polyglot – LLVM, Ruby, and WASM

13. Section 4: Microservices with Graal

14. Chapter 10: Microservices Architecture with GraalVM

15. Assessments

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