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
- GraalVM JavaScript interpreter
- LLVM runtime
- Developer monitoring and debugging tools
The GraalVM environment can be extended with optionally available support for Native Image, Java on Truffle (Espresso), Node.js, Ruby, R, Python, LLVM Toolchain, and WebAssembly using the GraalVM Updater tool.
Proceed to Getting Started for installation instructions per platform.
The release notes can be found on the website: https://www.graalvm.org/release-notes/21_1/.
As of this version, the GraalVM distributions based on OpenJDK 16 are available for download with several known limitations. Note that due to the decommissioning of the aging macOS 10.7 build infrastructure, GraalVM Community Edition releases based on JDK 8 are no longer being built.
Here are the convenience links for the base downloads of GraalVM:
Java 11 based
Java 8 based
Java 16 based (experimental)
† 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/