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> Yes, but GraalVM is still a VM with all that implies. What does it imply? For one thing, the term "VM" itself is vague. GraalVM isn't an "emulation of a comp
by tom_mellior 8y ago
> Yes, but GraalVM is still a VM with all that implies.
What does it imply? For one thing, the term "VM" itself is vague. GraalVM isn't an "emulation of a computer system" in the way a "VM" like VirtualBox is.
- tootie 8y agoIt sorta is. It was like a single Docker image called "Java" that gave you a complete runtime environment with all the OS internals available through a standard API so long as you wrote everything in one language.
- tom_mellior 8y agoAn API is not an emulation of a thing X. It's a way for you to access the actual X. Besides, as a sibling comment pointed out, even that loses all significance with native image compilation that throws out all the API methods that are not used, and inlines away the ones that are used.