> Project Leyden will take inspiration from past efforts to explore this space, including the GNU Compiler for Java [1] and the Native Image feature of GraalVM

> Project Leyden will take inspiration from past efforts to explore this space, including the GNU Compiler for Java [1] and the Native Image feature of GraalVM [2]. Leyden will add static images to the Java Platform Specification, and we expect that GraalVM will evolve to implement that Specification. Developers who use only the standard, specified static-image feature will then be able to switch with ease between Leyden (in the JDK), Native Image (in GraalVM), and whatever other conforming implementations may arise, choosing amongst tradeoffs of compile time, startup time, and image size. (From one of the links posted above)