[graalvm-users] Support for set-based languages

[Eric Sedlar]

Hi Ghislain,

   Yes, the implementations of languages like SQL will benefit from 
performance improvements from GraalVM.  We've done a lot of work there.

--Eric

On 3/29/2019 6:38 AM, Ghislain Fourny wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> >From what I see in the supported languages and the implementation of SimpleLanguage in GraalVM, the languages implemented so far are based on expressions that return single values.
>
> Are there so far any other languages running on GraalVM that are set-based, in order words, would GraalVM and/or the Truffle API support set-based languages out of the box? I am thinking of languages like SQL where an expression can return billions of values and packaging into a single value makes no sense.
>
> If not, do you expect that the Java implementation of such languages (e.g., based on runtime iterators implemented in Java), when directly compiled and executed on GraalVM, would benefit from the performance improvements?
>
> With many thanks and kind regards,
> Ghislain
>
>
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