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by kaba0 1702 days ago
How does it compare to Truffle Ruby? Is it really harder to run C FFI libs inside graal, than writing a new JIT compiler?
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noneeeed 1702 days ago
I went to a talk by the (one-of?) leads behind Truffle and it looks really great, but getting all C libs to work reliably did seem to be a big issue.

The performance of Truffle is amazing when it works, but I think the compatability issue is going to hamstring it for a while.

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kaba0 1702 days ago
The reason I’m asking is that Graal also has an LLVM frontend, meaning that C libs should mostly work just fine within the VM (with the added benefit of possibly inlining them, further increasing performance)
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bantunes 1702 days ago
This one is Oracle free :)
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