Graal in JDK10?

Christian Thalinger cthalinger at twitter.com
Wed Dec 20 17:49:11 UTC 2017



> On Dec 20, 2017, at 4:36 AM, Volker Simonis <volker.simonis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Ted,
> 
> you may want to visit the Java dev room at FOSDEM
> (https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/free_java/) and listen to
> Christian Thalingers talk. They are using Graal productively at
> Twitter for a while now.

Very productively, I’d like to add :-)

> 
> Regards,
> Volker
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Ted Neward <ted at tedneward.com> wrote:
>> I've had the pleasure of meeting Chris in person (DevoxxUK, earlier this year or last year, IIRC), and I'm definitely going to be going over that article later.
>> 
>> I guess what I'm leaning towards is a definitive "yes" or "no" as to whether Graal will be included as part of the *production* JDK releases, where the JEP talks about using the XX flags to turn on Experimental features, which are (probably) a non-starter for most production use scenarios, but I am willing to accept that Oracle may not know or want to commit to anything publicly at this point.
>> 
>> That said, if it's a given that it'll ship as part of production.... that would get me to do a happy dance, for sure. :-)
>> 
>> Ted Neward
>> Author, Speaker, Mentor
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>> 
>> On 12/20/17, 12:45 AM, "Jaroslav Tulach" <jaroslav.tulach at oracle.com> wrote:
>> 
>>    On úterý 19. prosince 2017 23:54:11 CET Ted Neward wrote:
>>> I just started browsing around in the JDK source code
>>> (hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk) and found jdk.internal.vm.compiler, which
>>> appears to have the GraalVM bits in it—is this planning to go out as part
>>> of JDK 10? Please? :-)
>> 
>>    Hello Ted.
>>    As far as I can tell Graal compiler is an important part of JDK9 (used for AOT
>>    compilation). With few intrinsic switches it can even be turn on and used for
>>    regular JIT compilation - find the details in the amazing Chris Seaton's
>>    article http://chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/jokerconf17/
>> 
>>    In addition to that Dalibor is right
>> 
>>> See http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/317
>> 
>>    more progress can be expected in forthcoming JDK releases.
>>    -jt
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 



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