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Java is Very Fast, If You Don’t Create Many Objects
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this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2023
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When I worked for Amazon, someone had created a command line tool to be used in builds, but repeatedly starting up JVMs is painfully slow. I rewrote the app in C++ and it could be invoked 81 times vs one invocation of Java version.
If I need speed, I'll use C++. If I need developer productivity, I'll use Ruby.
Why in the world would you rewrite it when you could take an hour and get it compiling with graalvm and it would be just as fast as c++?
I've never tried Graal. Is it easy to use? Like, is it a dropin replacement for javac or what?
It’s pretty easy to use. If you are using a lot of reflection you might have trouble, but if you’re using a standard large framework like spring, quarkus, or micronaut you’ll be fine. Quarkus makes it dead simple honestly. We deploy all of our Kotlin lambdas on AWS using Graal. It’s faster than node and much easier to write safe code.