Graal: A research platform for dynamic compilation and managed languages

When:
February 8, 2015 @ 2:00 pm – 5:30 pm
2015-02-08T14:00:00-08:00
2015-02-08T17:30:00-08:00
Where:
B
Contact:
Christian Wimmer (Oracle Labs)

The tutorial will cover the following topics:

  • Graal: a new high-performance dynamic compiler for Java written in Java
  • Introduction to the Graal intermediate representation, and how it simplifies speculative optimizations
  • Graal API: Separation of the compiler from the VM
  • Snippets: expressing high-level semantics in low-level Java code
  • Integration of the compiler with an application/library – and how that can help your research project.
  • Using Graal for static analysis
  • Graal as a compiler for dynamic programming languages
  • Project Sumatra: Compiling for the GPU