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Ok, fair enough. I was worried that there was some precise definition I had missed, but if that's not the case, I agree there's no point in debating it.
by rcthompson 9y ago
Ok, fair enough. I was worried that there was some precise definition I had missed, but if that's not the case, I agree there's no point in debating it.
- emn13 9y agoWell, there's at least one definition that's pretty noncontroversial, if not terribly satisfying or precise: it's not a JIT if you compile well in advance of any indication the program needs to be run. Whether that lazy-compilation strategy is fine-grained or not isn't clearcut, I believe. I think if you distribute a C program with a bash bootstrapper calling plain old gcc to compile and run the C code only when needed, even gcc might be considered a (coarse-grained, rather rudimentary) JIT in that context.
- kybernetikos 9y agoLike TCCBoot? https://bellard.org/tcc/tccboot.html https://bellard.org/tcc/tccboot.html