The 2021 Graal Workshop
Science, Art, Magic: Using and Developing The Graal Compiler
Science, Art, Magic: Using and Developing The Graal Compiler
The Third Graal Workshop was held virtually at CGO on February 27, 2021.
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You can find the recordings for all sessions on YouTube and individual video links below.
Topics for discussion included exploring speedup opportunities in the GraalVM compiler, novel uses of GraalVM’s infrastructure, new features in GraalVM, and benchmarking the GraalVM compiler.
Program
All times EST (UTC-5).
| Start | End | Title | Resources | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 AM | 8:05 AM | Welcome | Slides | Uma Srinivasan |
| 8:05 AM | 9:00 AM | Keynote: Exploring speedup opportunities in the GraalVM compiler | Slides Video | François Farquet |
| 9:00 AM | 9:30 AM | Babashka: a native Clojure interpreter for scripting. | Slides Video | Michiel Borkent |
| 9:30 AM | 10:00 AM | Truffle Startup and Warmup Challenges and Opportunities | Slides Video | Chris Seaton |
| 10:00 AM | 10:30 AM | One more gap bridged towards practice – support serialization feature in native image | Slides Video | Ziyi Lin |
| 10:30 AM | 11:00 AM | Improving Compiler Optimizations by Employing Machine Learning | Slides Video | Raphael Mosaner |
| 11:00 AM | 11:30 AM | GraalVM at Facebook | Slides Video | Chen Li |
| 11:30 AM | 12:00 PM | Tracking Performance of Graal on Public Benchmarks | Slides Video | Petr Tuma |
| 12:00 PM | 3:00 PM | Break | ||
| 3:00 PM | 3:30 PM | Performance understanding tools for GraalVM using eBPF | Slides Video | Andy Nisbet |
| 3:30 PM | 4:00 PM | Strato (Twitter PaaS) & Graal Native Image | Slides Video | Anton Panasenko |
| 4:00 PM | 5:00 PM | Panel Session: Graal on AArch64 |
Keynote
| Speaker | François Farquet (Oracle Labs) |
| Title | Explore speedup opportunities in the GraalVM compiler |
| Abstract | This talk will cover the different approaches the GraalVM compiler team applies in its quest to a better performing compiler, release after release. Regression tracking or comparison against competing compilers are obviously necessary not to fall behind, but a more creative approach can lead to unexpected low-hanging fruits: benchmarking non-default compiler configurations potentially produces better performance, giving the opportunity to fix the suboptimal pattern present in the compiler. Moreover, we’ll see how this hyperparameter analysis helped in understanding the compiler’s trade-offs and in finding optimal default values for all compiler options. From there, we can also go a step further and expose those trade-offs to let the users take the best decision based on their scenario. |
| Bio | François Farquet is a Principal Performance Engineer at Oracle located somewhere in the Swiss Alps. He is a member of the GraalVM compiler team in charge of benchmarking, performance tracking and hyperparameter tuning. |
Panel Session
Topic: Graal on AArch64
| Name | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| Monica Beckwith | Microsoft | @mon_beck |
| Tom Shull | Oracle Labs | |
| Alan Hayward | Arm | |
| Flavio Brasil | @flaviusbraz | |
| Tianxiao Gu | Alibaba | |
| Andrew Dinn | Red Hat |
Organizers
| Name | ||
|---|---|---|
| Uma Srinivasan | usrinivasan@twitter.com | @umatweep |
| Niklas Vangerow | nvangerow@twitter.com | @nvgrw |
| Flavio Brasil | fbrasil@twitter.com | @flaviusbraz |
Program Committee
Alan Hayward (Arm), Chris Seaton (Shopify), Christian Wimmer (Oracle Labs), David Leopoldseder (Oracle Labs/JKU Linz), Niklas Vangerow (Twitter), Tianxiao Gu (Alibaba), Will Holen (Facebook)