GraalVM is a high-performance JDK distribution designed to accelerate the execution of applications written in Java and other JVM languages along with support for JavaScript, Ruby, Python, and a number of other popular languages. Additionally, GraalVM allows efficient interoperability between programming languages and compiling Java applications ahead-of-time into native executables for faster startup time and lower memory overhead.
This distribution of GraalVM Community includes:
- Java runtime with the GraalVM compiler
- Node.js runtime with the GraalVM JavaScript interpreter
- LLVM bitcode runtime
- Developer monitoring and debugging tools
GraalVM base installation can be optionally extended with Native Image, LLVM Toolchain plugins using the GraalVM gu utility.
Proceed to Getting Started for installation instructions per platform.
The release notes can be found on the website: https://www.graalvm.org/docs/release-notes/19_3/#1936
Here are the convenience links for the core downloads of GraalVM:
Java 11 based
Java 8 based
If you are using macOS Catalina and later you may need to remove the quarantine attribute from the bits before you can use them
To do this, run the following:
$ sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine path/to/graalvm/folder/