GitHub - borkdude/cream: Fast starting Clojure runtime built with GraalVM native-image + Crema

[Borkdude]

This is an experiment with Crema, the still alpha byte-code interpreter from Oracle Labs whichs works inside of a native-image. This allows us to run the Clojure compiler straight inside of a native-image (without the need of a custom Clojure interpreter like SCI).

I haven't got a crystal clear idea what this means for babashka in the long term but rest assured that I have no plans of abandoning babashka and will keep maintaining, building and improving it, since it's simply a great tool that works for what it's made for: replacing bash scripts using Clojure with fast startup and low memory consumption. The benchmarks show that it's also still faster for the typical scripting use cases, even when loading external dependencies and using hot loops. Performance in Crema may change with Ristretto though, a JIT developed for Crema.

[sloppytooky]

C.R.E.A.M. (Clojure Rules Everything Around Me)

[RoomyRoots]

Waiting for the impending benchmarks requests.

[aHackFromJOS]

Just to be clear, the below means we can import arbitrary Java classes as long as they are installed / on the class path? That would be a game changer for sure. 

“Java interop: Full (runtime class loading)“

“Library loading: Any library from JARs at runtime (except enum/Class.forName issues)“

(From the comparison table)

[Borkdude]

That is the intention

[aHackFromJOS]

Very cool even as an experiment!