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A high-performance implementation of the R programming language, built on GraalVM.

10 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 2 stories, 8 comments · first 2017-03-15 · latest 2021-07-07

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  1. …github.com/graalvm/graalvm-ce-builds/releases/tag/vm... [2] https://github.com/oracle/graalpython [3] https://github.com/oracle/fastr/releases/tag/vm-21.1.0 [4] https://github.com/oracle/graaljs
    comment by wdanilo · 2021-07-07 · in Launch HN: Enso (YC S21) – Visual programming and workflow automation tool
  2. …only a few years has managed to create ~the fastest R runtime thanks to the graalVM infrastructure https://github.com/oracle/fastr + it get polyglotism for free. See also graalphp: https://github.com/abertschi/graalphp/blob/master/results.m…
    comment by The_rationalist · 2021-03-17 · in The Modern Java Platform – 2021 Edition
  3. …a human-noticeable perf difference vs node). R projects suffer the usual R-on-JVM issues, see eg https://github.com/oracle/fastr#status-and-limitations . I could, however, use ggplot2 and dplyr, which I don't recall working the last time I…
    comment by gcommer · 2018-04-17 · in GraalVM: Run Programs Faster Anywhere
  4. …(UPL - BSD license) Ruby: https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby (EPL, GPLv2, LGPL) R: https://github.com/oracle/fastr (GPLv2) Python: https://github.com/graalvm/graalpython (UPL - BSD license) LLVM/Sulong: https://github.com/graalvm/sulong
    comment by grashalm · 2018-04-17 · in GraalVM: Run Programs Faster Anywhere
  5. Thought this was about https://github.com/oracle/fastr
    comment by Laaas · 2018-02-25 · in Show HN: Fastr – Reload Optimizing Chrome Extension
  6. …fastR on my employer's [3] workflows and it does not work yet. [1] http://www.pqr-project.org/ [2] https://github.com/graalvm/fastr [3] http://syberia.io/
    comment by kirillseva · 2017-11-03 · in Renjin: a JVM-based interpreter for the R language
  7. …C code into your R code at runtime, which can result in zero overhead inter language calls. [1] https://github.com/graalvm/fastr
    comment by ianopolous · 2017-11-03 · in Renjin: a JVM-based interpreter for the R language
  8. It's not easy, but it's possible. Check out FastR: https://github.com/graalvm/fastr Here's a good video about the language and this implementation: http://download.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/community...
    comment by brandonbloom · 2017-03-15 · in Ask HN: Example of a 'non-scalar' programming language?