R and Partial Evaluation with Graal

[Mick Jordan]

On 5/16/16 2:26 AM, Jaroslav Tulach wrote:
> ### Monday 16 of May 2016, 09:57:16 @ Juan Fumero ###
>> Hi Jaroslav,
>>     Thanks a lot for the suggestion.
>>     
>> I get the same error unless I use the suggested flag in the VM. I
>> understand this is the same that setting the JAVA_HOME to GraalVM.
> But if you use the flag to suppress the error, what instance of
> Truffle.getRuntime() do you get? The default one? That one is slow...
>
> I don't know what to advice. Looking at the history
> https://github.com/graalvm/truffle/commits/master/truffle/com.oracle.truffle.api/src/com/oracle/truffle/api/Truffle.java
>
> I don't see that many changes. I don't think the JDK9 related changes could
> cause much harm.
> -jt
>
>
FastR should work out of the box with a standard VM. The way we use 
graal is to download graal-core as sibling suite to FastR and then tie 
them together using the dynamic imports option of mx, vis:

mx --dynamicimports graal-core R

The FastR mx startup detects the existence of graal-core and uses the 
jvmci compiler. You can set the DEFAULT_DYNAMIC_IMPORTS environment 
variable to avoid having to pass the option every time.

Mick