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

Understanding the GraalVM architecture

In this section, we will look at the various architectural components of GraalVM. We will look at how various runtimes, tools, and frameworks come together to provide the most advanced VM and runtime. The following diagram shows the high-level architecture of GraalVM:

Figure 3.1 – Graal VM architecture

Let's go through each of these components in detail.

JVM (HotSpot)

JVM HotSpot is the regular Java HotSpot VM. The C2 compiler, which is part of the HotSpot VM, is replaced with the Graal JIT compiler implementation. The Graal JIT compiler is an implementation of Java Virtual Machine Compiler Interface (JVMCI) and plugs into the Java VM. We covered the architecture of JVM HotSpot in the previous chapters. Please refer to them for a more in-depth understanding of how JVM HotSpot works and the various architectural components of JVM.