truffleruby
Graal
truffleruby | Graal | |
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25 | 156 | |
2,963 | 19,807 | |
0.1% | 0.5% | |
9.9 | 10.0 | |
4 days ago | 2 days ago | |
Ruby | Java | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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truffleruby
- TruffleRuby 24.0.0
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Mir: Strongly typed IR to implement fast and lightweight interpreters and JITs
I think it would be worth mentioning GraalVM and https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby in competitors section.
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GraalVM for JDK 21 is here
GitHub page has some info: https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby#current-status
My question is, how viable is TruffleRuby vs JRuby?
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Making Python 100x faster with less than 100 lines of Rust
I wonder why GraalVM is not more often used for these speed critical cases: https://www.graalvm.org/python/
Is the problem the Oracle involvement? (Same for ruby https://www.graalvm.org/ruby/)
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Ruby 3.2’s YJIT is Production-Ready
Looks like it’s still a WIP
https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby/commits?author=eregon
- Implement Pattern Matching in TruffleRuby (GSoC)
- TruffleRuby – GraalVM Community Edition 22.2.0
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Modern programming languages require generics
this comes at the cost of boxing ints inside Integer, though.
So, if you ignore for a moment primitives types, whenever you have generics, everything boils down to a single method accepting Objects and returning Objects. What the JVM does is to do runtime profiling of what actually you are passing to the generic method, and generate optimized routines for the "best case". In theory this is the best of the two worlds, because like in general you will have a single implementation of the method (avoiding duplication of the code), but if you use it in an hot spot you get the optimized code.
In a way, it is quite wasteful, because you throw away a lot of information at compile time, just to get it back (and maybe not all of it) at runtime through profiling, but in practice it works quite well.
A side effect of this is this makes the JVM a wonderful VM for running dynamic languages like Ruby and Python, because that information is _not_ there at compile time. In particular GraalVM/TruffleVM and exposes this functionality to dynamic language implementations, allowing very good performance (according to they website [1][2], Ruby and Python on TruffleVM are about 8x faster than the official implementation, and JS in line with V8)
[1] https://www.graalvm.org/ruby/
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GraalVM 22.1: Developer experience improvements, Apple Silicon builds, and more
I opened a ticket some time ago about performance with Jekyll and liquid templates. At least in that case, yjit was way faster. I'm happy to retest though. Anything that would make my jekyll builds faster would help.
https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby/issues/2363
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Ruby YJIT Ported to Rust
Here's a benchmark [1] done in Jan'22 against many ruby implementations, truffleRuby [2] seems to be way ahead in most, and at least ahead in all. Why truffleRuby isn't talk about much here?
[1] https://eregon.me/blog/2022/01/06/benchmarking-cruby-mjit-yj...
[2] https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby
Graal
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Java 23: The New Features Are Officially Announced
Contrary to what vocal Kotlin advocates might believe, Kotlin only matters on Android, and that is thanks to Google pushing it no matter what.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-top-programming-languages-2023
https://snyk.io/reports/jvm-ecosystem-report-2021/
And even so, they had to conceed Android and Kotlin on their own, without the Java ecosystem aren't really much useful, thus ART is now updatable via Play Store, and currently supports OpenJDK 17 LTS on Android 12 and later devices.
As for your question regarding numbers, mostly Java 74.6%, C++ 13.7%, on the OpenJDK, other JVM implementations differ, e.g. GraalVM is mostly Java 91.8%, C 3.6%.
https://github.com/openjdk/jdk
https://github.com/oracle/graal
Two examples from many others, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_virtual_machines
- FLaNK Stack 05 Feb 2024
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Apple releases Pkl – onfiguration as code language
Pkl was built using the GraalVM Truffle framework. So it supports runtime compilation using Futurama Projections. We have been working with Apple on this for a while, and I am quite happy that we can finally read the sources!
https://github.com/oracle/graal/tree/master/truffle
Disclaimer: graalvm dev here.
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Live Objects All the Way Down: Removing the Barriers Between Apps and VMs
That's pretty interesting. It's not as aggressive as Bee sounds, but the Espresso JVM is somewhat similar in concept. It's a full blown JVM written in Java with all the mod cons, which can either be compiled ahead of time down to memory-efficient native code giving something similar to a JVM written in C++, or run itself as a Java application on top of another JVM. In the latter mode it obviously doesn't achieve top-tier performance, but the advantage is you can easily hack on it using all the regular Java tools, including hotswapping using the debugger.
When run like this, the bytecode interpreter, runtime system and JIT compiler are all regular Java that can be debugged, edited, explored in the IDE, recompiled quickly and so on. Only the GC is provided by the host system. If you compile it to native code, the GC is also written in Java (with some special conventions to allow for convenient direct memory access).
What's most interesting is that Espresso isn't a direct translation of what a classical C++ VM would look like. It's built on the Truffle framework, so the code is extremely high level compared to traditional VM code. Details like how exactly transitions between the interpreter/compiled code happen, how you communicate pointer maps to the GC and so on are all abstracted away. You don't even have to invoke the JIT compiler manually, that's done for you too. The only code Espresso really needs is that which defines the semantics of the Java bytecode language and associated tools like the JDWP debugger protocol.
https://github.com/oracle/graal/tree/master/espresso
This design makes it easy to experiment with new VM features that would be too difficult or expensive to implement otherwise. For example it implements full hotswap capability that lets you arbitrarily redefine code and data on the fly. Espresso can also fully self-host recursively without limit, meaning you can achieve something like what's described in the paper by running Espresso on top of Espresso.
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Crash report and loading time
I'm also using GraalVM if that's of any help.
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Quarkus 3.4 - Container-first Java Stack: Install with OpenJDK 21 and Create REST API
Quarkus is one of Java frameworks for microservices development and cloud-native deployment. It is developed as container-first stack and working with GraalVM and HotSpot virtual machines (VM).
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Level-up your Java Debugging Skills with on-demand Debugging
Apologies, I didn't mean to imply DCEVM went poof, just that I was sad it didn't make it into OpenJDK so one need not do JDK silliness between the production one and the "debugging one" since my experience is that's an absolutely stellar way to produce Heisenbugs
And I'll be straight: Graal scares me 'cause Oracle but I just checked and it looks to the casual observer that it's straight-up GPLv2 now so maybe my fears need revisiting: https://github.com/oracle/graal/blob/vm-23.1.0/LICENSE
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Rust vs Go: A Hands-On Comparison
> to be compiled to a single executable is a strength that Java does not have
I think this is very outdated claim: https://www.graalvm.org/
- Leveraging Rust in our high-performance Java database
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Java 21 makes me like Java again
https://github.com/oracle/graal/issues/7182
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