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> Broadly speaking, a JIT (or just-in-time) compiler is a piece of code that translates some kind of program code into machine instructions for the host CPU. N
by smegel 9y ago
> Broadly speaking, a JIT (or just-in-time) compiler is a piece of code that translates some kind of program code into machine instructions for the host CPU.
No, that's a compiler.
- rjblackman 9y agocompilers can be used to make machine instructions for a none host CPU. he just missed out the runtime part for a jit.
- mathw 9y agoExcept he didn't, it's in the very next sentence.
- taneq 9y agoIt's almost like JIT is short for "just-in-time compiler" or something.
- SmellyGeekBoy 9y agoThe author goes on to clarify right in the next sentence...
- adwhit 9y agoI love the idea that someone got this far into the article, then stopped in a furious rage to fire off a missive to the HN collective. If only they had read on just One. More. Line!