Will GraalVM replace JVM?

GraalVM is a JVM with multiple change: the graal compiler. It is intended to replace the C2 compiler (server mode) in front of HotSpot. Truffle a library that you can implements to make JVM polyglot ( there already a number of language that are supported like js, R, Ruby…)

Is GraalVM a JVM?

GraalVM takes over the compilation of Java bytecode to machine code. In particular for other JVM-based languages such as Scala, this configuration can achieve benefits, as for example experienced by Twitter running GraalVM in production.

Is GraalVM faster than JVM?

GraalVM native executables can run faster than Scala/Java/JVM applications, with much less memory consumption.

Who uses GraalVM?

4 companies reportedly use GraalVM in their tech stacks, including JustChunks, Platform, and Sysmo Sistemas.

Will GraalVM replace HotSpot?

The GraalVM Compiler is a modern Java just-in-time compiler. It complements or replaces the existing compilers (C1/C2 in HotSpot). In contrast to those existing compilers, the GraalVM compiler is written in modular, maintainable and extendable fashion in Java itself.

Is GraalVM faster than HotSpot?

It turned out that GraalVM is a bit faster overall than HotSpot but there are some outliers to the left, i.e. some problems where we can observe a severe performance degradation. The native image, however, is 50\% slower on average (in terms of moves per second) than HotSpot.

Is GraalVM faster than OpenJDK?

On the Renaissance benchmark suite, which “contains a range of modern workloads, comprising of various popular systems, frameworks and applications made for the JVM”, GraalVM Enterprise achieves a geomean speedup of 1.55x over OpenJDK 8 and similar results for OpenJDK 11.

Is GraalVM open source?

GraalVM Community Edition is open source software built from the sources available on GitHub and distributed under version 2 of the GNU General Public License with the “Classpath” Exception, which are the same terms as for Java.

Does GraalVM support JavaFX?

Besides being a versatile platform for desktop applications, JavaFX with the Gluon Substrate support allows for GraalVM Native Image to transform Java bytecode into an executable, and then add some functionality to the object file to bundle it with everything required.

Is GraalVM production ready?

According to the official slides, videos, and conference talks, GraalVM is 100\% production-ready.