

Fabio Niephaus
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@fniephaus
Research Manager on the @GraalVM team at @Oracle. Dev tools, languages, VMs. Previously at @HPI_DE, @GoogleColab, and @MatonGuitars. Views are my own.






We should make EnterpriseClaw just for the lolz. Java 21, Spring Boot, 14 abstract factory beans, 2GB Docker image, takes 45 seconds to start, AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryAgentClawResponseHandlerBeanDefinitionRegistryPostProcessorImpl .java














GraalVM Native Image is ~3.5x faster than SapMachine… 😉 … in @parttimen3rd's version string benchmark. Why? The `native-image` launcher is a native image itself. So it starts up much faster, and uses fewer CPU and memory resources! PR with details: github.com/oracle/graal/p…



OpenJDK is faster than GraalVM*: mostlynerdless.de/blog/2026/01/0…










The @Kotlin team at @JetBrains is working on a @GraalVM-compiled kotlinc. Early experiments look very promising: > So far, a native image with PGO offers a properly "warmed-up" kotlinc and with up to 20% more peak throughput. Ticket: youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-82373…