GraalVM

Announcing GraalVM 19

First production release — we are stoked to introduce GraalVM 19.0! 🚀🏆

Using TestContainers from a Node.js application

GraalVM allows using Java libraries from node.js apps…

Simplifying native-image generation with Maven plugin and embeddable configuration

GraalVM’s JavaScript engine on JDK11 with high performance

Multi-threaded Java ←→JavaScript language interoperability in GraalVM

Isolates and Compressed References: More Flexible and Efficient Memory Management via GraalVM

GraalVM in 2018

Looking back at GraalVM in 2018: important videos and blogposts which appeared through…

Bringing Modern Programming Languages to the Oracle Database with GraalVM

Safe and sandboxed execution of native code

Sandboxed execution of native code on GraalVM enhances…

Faster R with FastR

Under the hood of GraalVM JIT optimizations

Previously we looked at the performance of Java Streams API on the GraalVM in comparison with JavaHotSpot VM. GraalVM is a high-performance virtual machine, and in those experiments we got performance improvements from 1.7x to 5x when running sample…

Understanding Class Initialization in GraalVM Native Image Generation

tl;dr: Classes reachable for a GraalVM native image are initialized at image build time. Objects allocated by class initializers are in the image heap that is part of the executable. The new option…

Analyzing the Heap of GraalVM Polyglot Applications

Stream API performance with GraalVM

How GraalVM optimizes Java programs that use the JDK 8 Streams…

Bringing Fibers to TruffleRuby

When we first started working on TruffleRuby, the GraalVM’s implementation of Ruby, we looked at what…

Oracle GraalVM announces support for Nashorn migration

Running JavaScript in the JVM has been supported for a long time, first with the Rhino engine released in JDK 6 and later with the Nashorn engine introduced in JDK 8. Recently, the Java team published a proposal (JEP-335) to deprecate…

GraalVM 1.0-rc4 Release Notes

Today we released GraalVM 1.0-rc4 with both the Community Edition and the Enterprise Edition binaries publicly available for download.

GraalVM is a large project consisting of several components, and we are highlighting the most important changes to…

GraalVM 1.0-rc3 Release Notes

Today we released GraalVM 1.0-rc3 with both the Community Edition and the Enterprise Edition binaries publicly available for download.

Compiling Scala Faster with GraalVM

The Scala compiler is notorious for its long compilation times. This is considered one of the…

GraalVM 1.0-rc2 Release Notes

Several weeks ago, we released GraalVM 1.0-rc1 and launched the GraalVM website with documentation and examples. We would like to thank all early adopters who tried the GraalVM 1.0-rc1 release on their projects and reached out to us with feature requests and issue reports. We…

Instant Netty Startup using GraalVM Native Image Generation

In this article we show how you can get…

Enhance your Java Spring application with R data science

In this post we look at GraalVM running a sample Spring application written in Java, that is using ggplot2, an R library, to plot the data.

Debugging polyglot Node.js, Ruby, R apps with GraalVM

This post was written by Martin Entlicher and Oleg Šelajev.

In this post, we explore how to debug a polyglot JavaScript Node.js, Ruby, and R application using GraalVM and the Chrome Dev tools debugger.