Java Performance Myths: JIT vs AOT, GraalVM, Performance Engineering – Thomas Wuerthinger

Episode description:Thomas Wuerthinger, Founder and Project Lead of GraalVM and Vice President at Oracle, joins Marco to unpack how modern Java runtimes actually work. They explore why duplicating compilers and garbage collectors across languages is a waste of engineering effort, how GraalVM grew from a research project into production technology, and why Native Image unexpectedly became its most impactful feature.
💡 In this episode:

• GraalVM, Native Image, and Java performance

• JIT vs AOT and predictable runtime behavior

• Polyglot runtimes and shared memory models

• Cloud-native…