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Interpreters are not JITs.

• dkersten 17y ago
  But there is no reason why an interpreter could not contain a JIT to on-demand compile. In fact, the definition of interpreter that seems to be in common use is that it takes raw source code and executes it - nowhere have I ever seen anybody state that the compiler cannot on-demand compile the source code as its interpreted (perhaps to speed up future calls to that code). This is still distinct from VM based implementations, which compile the source code to byte code and the byte code is then executed or natively compiled languages where the code is compiled directly to the host processors instruction set.