Improving GraalVM Native Image

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GraalVM Native Image is presented with its AOT compilation and heap snapshotting approach to drastically improve startup time, while requiring reflection targets and class initialization to be fixed at build time. The work describes a tracing agent that records runtime reflection usage to produce reflection configuration files, and a static analysis that identifies many classes for eager class initialization during image build, including surprising corner cases involving LambdaMetafactory and annotation handling.

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1. 0:00GraalVM Native Image intro
2. 3:44Native Image compilation
3. 10:47Microservices startup
4. 17:11Reflection handling
5. 24:09Runtime performance
6. 30:12Cross-platform support
7. 36:00Q&A

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