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"Graal is a dynamic compiler written in Java that integrates with the HotSpot JVM. It has a focus on high performance and extensibility. In addition, it provide

by crudbug 11y ago

"Graal is a dynamic compiler written in Java that integrates with the HotSpot JVM. It has a focus on high performance and extensibility. In addition, it provides optimized performance for Truffle based languages running on the JVM." "Truffle is a framework for implementing languages as simple interpreters. Together with the Graal compiler, Truffle interpreters are automatically just-in-time compiled and programs running on top of them can reach performance of normal Java."

haddr 11y ago
This is something I'm looking forward to in Java 9. There is already a big effort in bringing R language to the JVM (google for project fastr on bitbucket) and it might be just a beginning. It might finally bring the interoperability between other, more specific languages and take advantage of vast amounts of libraries available for Java and other JVM languages. Edit: link to the fastr https://bitbucket.org/allr/fastr https://bitbucket.org/allr/fastr It's open source, and they encourage people to participate.
- azinman2 11y ago
  What's happening in 9?
  - the8472 11y ago
    So far Graal has been an experimental/research fork of the hotspot JVM. JDK 9 builds include JVMCI[1] as experimental feature which can be used to run graal without JVM modifications. [1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/243 http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/243
- sciurus 11y ago
  That's also some promising ongoing work implementing Ruby on Truffle. https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/Truffle https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/Truffle http://lists.ruby-lang.org/pipermail/jruby/2015-December/000262.html http://lists.ruby-lang.org/pipermail/jruby/2015-December/000...
- haddr 11y ago
  BTW. here's the list of CRAN packages they claim they can already run (i suppose install and run, maybe not yet tested). Anyway this is impressive: https://bitbucket.org/allr/fastr/src/dcae74ecaaf3291f93ae2c0d314a9d0aeecbb347/com.oracle.truffle.r.test.cran/ok.packages?at=default https://bitbucket.org/allr/fastr/src/dcae74ecaaf3291f93ae2c0...

by crudbug 11y ago

haddr 11y ago

This is something I'm looking forward to in Java 9. There is already a big effort in bringing R language to the JVM (google for project fastr on bitbucket) and it might be just a beginning. It might finally bring the interoperability between other, more specific languages and take advantage of vast amounts of libraries available for Java and other JVM languages. Edit: link to the fastr https://bitbucket.org/allr/fastr https://bitbucket.org/allr/fastr It's open source, and they encourage people to participate.

azinman2 11y ago
What's happening in 9?
- the8472 11y ago
  So far Graal has been an experimental/research fork of the hotspot JVM. JDK 9 builds include JVMCI[1] as experimental feature which can be used to run graal without JVM modifications. [1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/243 http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/243
sciurus 11y ago
That's also some promising ongoing work implementing Ruby on Truffle. https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/Truffle https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/Truffle http://lists.ruby-lang.org/pipermail/jruby/2015-December/000262.html http://lists.ruby-lang.org/pipermail/jruby/2015-December/000...
haddr 11y ago
BTW. here's the list of CRAN packages they claim they can already run (i suppose install and run, maybe not yet tested). Anyway this is impressive: https://bitbucket.org/allr/fastr/src/dcae74ecaaf3291f93ae2c0d314a9d0aeecbb347/com.oracle.truffle.r.test.cran/ok.packages?at=default https://bitbucket.org/allr/fastr/src/dcae74ecaaf3291f93ae2c0...