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

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

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting up the environment

In this chapter, we will be using VisualVM and the Ideal Graph Visualizer to understand how Graal JIT works. This understanding will help us, in the subsequent chapters, to build optimum code with Graal.

Setting up Graal

In Chapter 3, GraalVM Architecture, we discussed the two editions of Graal – Community Edition and Enterprise Edition (EE). Graal Community Edition can be downloaded from the Git repository mentioned in the Technical requirements section, while EE requires you to register with Oracle to download it. EE is available for free for evaluation and non-production applications.

Installing the Community Edition

To install GraalVM Community Edition, go to https://github.com/graalvm/graalvm-ce-builds/releases and download the latest release for the target operating system (macOS, Linux, and Windows). At the time of writing this book, the latest version is 21.0.0.2, with base Java 8 or Java 11 versions. The Community Edition is built...