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Supercharge Your Applications with GraalVM

By : A B Vijay Kumar
Book Image

Supercharge Your Applications with GraalVM

By: A B Vijay Kumar

Overview of this book

GraalVM is a universal virtual machine that allows programmers to compile and run applications written in both JVM and non-JVM languages. It improves the performance and efficiency of applications, making it an ideal companion for cloud-native or microservices-based applications. This book is a hands-on guide, with step-by-step instructions on how to work with GraalVM. Starting with a quick introduction to the GraalVM architecture and how things work under the hood, you'll discover the performance benefits of running your Java applications on GraalVM. You'll then learn how to create native images and understand how AOT (ahead-of-time) can improve application performance significantly. The book covers examples of building polyglot applications that will help you explore the interoperability between languages running on the same VM. You'll also see how you can use the Truffle framework to implement any language of your choice to run optimally on GraalVM. By the end of this book, you'll not only have learned how GraalVM is beneficial in cloud-native and microservices development but also how to leverage its capabilities to create high-performing polyglot applications.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Evolution of JVM
4
Section 2: Getting Up and Running with GraalVM – Architecture and Implementation
8
Section 3: Polyglot with Graal
13
Section 4: Microservices with Graal

Section 3: Polyglot with Graal

This section explains how we can use GraalVM as a polyglot VM, with a hands-on session on how polyglot interoperability works and how Truffle helps with the polyglot support of Java, Python, and JavaScript. This section includes the following chapters:

  • Chapter 6, Truffle for Multi-language (Polyglot) support
  • Chapter 7, GraalVM Polyglot – JavaScript and Node.js
  • Chapter 8, GraalVM Polyglot – Java on Truffle, Python, and R
  • Chapter 9, Graal Polyglot – LLVM, Ruby, and WASM