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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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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

Understanding the JavaScript (including Node.js) Truffle interpreter

The GraalVM version of JavaScript is an ECMAScript-compliant runtime for both JavaScript, js, and Node.js, node. It supports all the features of ECMAScript 2021, at the time of writing this book. It is also Nashorn- and Rhino-compatible and provides complete support for Node.js.

GraalVM Node.js uses the original Node.js source code and replaces the V8 JavaScript engine with the GraalVM JavaScript engine. The replacement is seamless, and the application developers don't have to modify any significant amount of code or configuration to run existing Node.js applications with GraalVM Node.js. GraalVM Node.js provides more features for embedding code from other languages, and accessing data and code, and interoperating code in other language. Node package manager (NPM) is also included in npm.

In this section, apart from using JavaScript and Node as an alternate runtime for running applications, we will also...

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