I saw the talk live last Friday in ClojuTRE. Someone asked about performance, and IIRC the speaker said that a GraalVM-built native binary tends to run about 50

I saw the talk live last Friday in ClojuTRE. Someone asked about performance, and IIRC the speaker said that a GraalVM-built native binary tends to run about 50% slower than JVM for long-running tasks. For some purposes this matters and for some others it doesn't. I can certainly see the benefit of quick startup for e.g. CLI tools. And for servers, the security benefit of running a single standalone binary blob inside a multistage Docker container might be easily worth it.