Graal & Truffle

• Truffle is a framework for implementing languages using an AST interpreter
• Graal is a compiler, supporting several advanced optimizations aimed at high levels of abstraction and dynamism
  • can substantially reduce the number of heap allocations
• the aim of the project is to make it easy to build languages, with an existing ecosystem to springboard off of
• demonstration language using truffle
• AOT and JIT refer to when a compilation takes place
  • JIT compiler from X to Y requires an interpreter for Y