5 ms·
I learned most of what I know about Truffle and Graal from your blog posts, so you obviously know more about this than me. However, I was under the impression t
by chaosite 4y ago
I learned most of what I know about Truffle and Graal from your blog posts, so you obviously know more about this than me. However, I was under the impression that Truffle is quite closely integrated into GraalVM, that is, you can't use Truffle on a different JVM. Is that not true?
- origin_path 4y agoNot so. Truffle is just a Java library like any other. You can therefore run Truffle languages on any JVM. However, they will run slow as they are just interpreters, then. To get the speedups you need to use Graal, which recognizes Truffle as a library and treats it specially.
- chaosite 4y agoWell, OK, sure, but Truffle without partial evaluation is just an interpreter written in a very particular way... I see what you mean though, thanks!
- chrisseaton 4y ago> Well, OK, sure, but Truffle without partial evaluation is just an interpreter written in a very particular way.. That's what it was to start with. Partial evaluation came later.
- rschatz 4y agoTruffle and partial evaluation also works on native-image. You could say this is a VM where there are no bytecodes anymore.
- chaosite 4y agoOh, of course, but native-image is still a Graal feature, and I was asking about Truffle without Graal.
- entropicdrifter 4y agonative-image was created as part of the Graal project but I think it's a separate JVM implementation from GraalVM