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		SahAssar on April 11, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Problems with JPA/Hibernate There is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_(JavaScript_engine) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GraalVM. The latter of those is the second fastest js server runtime (es4x) according to techempower benchmarks: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&hw=... I haven't tried any of those, but saying the JVM can't run JS is not true.

Scarbutt on April 11, 2021 [–]

GraalVM is not a drop-in replacement for the JVM and Rhino is slow as molasses compared to V8.

vips7L on April 11, 2021 | [–]

> GraalVM is not a drop-in replacement for the JVM

As far as I understand, yes it is. GraalVM is just HotSpot with the graal jit compiler instead of C2.

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