vladimirdolzhenko

Guava, Graal and Partial Escape Analysis

Recently java 10 release happened - in fact, Graal was available earlier, but now it is more easy to access and use it - Congratulations, you're running #Graal! - just add a couple options:

-XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+UseJVMCICompiler

What does it can provide for us and what kind of enhancements we can expect to get, and more over - what dirty-hacks could be dropped ?

Let's explore an example - looks a bit synthetic but based on a real production code.

rednaxelafx

package fx.jvm.hotspot.tools;

import java.util.List;

import sun.jvm.hotspot.tools.Tool;

public class PrintThreadIds extends Tool {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        PrintThreadIds tool = new PrintThreadIds();
        tool.start(args);