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Supercharge Your Applications with GraalVM

You're reading from   Supercharge Your Applications with GraalVM Hands-on examples to optimize and extend your code using GraalVM's high performance and polyglot capabilities

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800564909
Length 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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A B Vijay Kumar A B Vijay Kumar
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

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 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

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

Support for polyglot development is one of the biggest features of GraalVM. In Chapter 4, Graal Just-In-Time Compiler, and Chapter 5, Graal Ahead-of-Time Compiler and Native Image, we went into a lot of detail on how Graal optimizes code, both at build time and run time. We have only used Java in all the previous chapters. However, GraalVM extends most of its advanced features to other programming languages too. GraalVM provides a language implementation framework called Truffle Language Implementation Framework (commonly known as Truffle).

GraalVM not only provides a high-performance runtime for JVM languages such as Java, Groovy, Kotlin, and Scala, but it also supports non-JVM languages such as JavaScript, Ruby, Python, R, WebAssembly, and LLVM languages that implement Truffle. A lot more languages are being implemented on Truffle.

This chapter provides a conceptual view of how Truffle helps guest language developers...

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