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JVM implementations.md

Keeping track of unique JVM implementations

  • HotSpot | native
    originally developed by Sun Microsystems, most current JDK and JRE distributions are based on this. This is the fastest runtime.
  • OpenJ9 | native
    Eclipse OpenJ9 is another native JVM implementation, it provides faster start-up and smaller memory footprint than HotSpot
  • CheerpJ | WebAssembly
    Java 8 in WEB. can run java applications in browser
  • Espresso | Java
    Java in GraalVM Truffle polyglot API. Because this is java in java, it can run itself.

semi-jvms

  • GraalVM native image
    compile java apps into binary executables. Issues with resource loading, reflection
  • CheerpJ v2
    javascript transpiler
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