GraalVM: Fast, Polyglot, Native

GraalVM challenges the status quo on the JVM. This newly-released just-in-time compiler brings substantial speed improvements and support for polyglot applications. It also allows us to translate our JVM bytecode into small self-contained native binaries. In this session we’ll explore GraalVM’s potential. We’ll focus on Clojure, but our discussion will apply to any JVM-based programming language. We’ll use GraalVM to build native binaries with simple command-line tools. We’ll discuss the method’s limitations and their impact. Finally, we’ll build complete Clojure web applications weighing a fraction of their traditional JVM incarnations.

Date

2018-09-06

Time

13:40 - 14:40

Conference / Event

Berlin Expert Days 2018 (BED-Con)

Venue

Urania Berlin, Berlin