"I thought JIT was a fundamental part of how Java works, so I'm a bit confused." Suns JDK has had JIT since 1.2 (J2SE in marketspeak), but it is not a prerequi

"I thought JIT was a fundamental part of how Java works, so I'm a bit confused." Suns JDK has had JIT since 1.2 (J2SE in marketspeak), but it is not a prerequisite for Java. It just speeds things up (after a short pause for compile to native).