Fair enough. You could date the project back to the Maxine days as well :-) Joking aside, the Java-Level JVM Compiler Interface [1] was only added about a year

Fair enough. You could date the project back to the Maxine days as well :-) Joking aside, the Java-Level JVM Compiler Interface [1] was only added about a year ago, in Java 9. This is what allows using Graal with a stock JVM. So, for many people this is the point at which Graal became available. [1] -- http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/243 http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/243