@apropos_cast I know you mentioned @christhalinger's talk in the podcast, but for folks who haven't seen it Twitter's #Graal R&D is detailed here: youtu.be/G-vlQaPMAxg
@apropos_cast @christhalinger To be clear, we backported the Graal *JIT compiler* to Java 8, and didn't adopt the full GraalVM stack.
@apropos_cast @christhalinger We saw a ~10% improvement in CPU utilization for our Scala-based services with the OSS version of Graal JIT.
Ian Brown@igb
@apropos_cast @christhalinger With pure Java source/lang originating apps we didn't see as much of a win.
@apropos_cast @christhalinger That said, the Clojure community should look at Graal's JIT compiler to see if Clojure byte code gets better JIT w/ Graal instead of C2.