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I think Rob Pike mentioned it in a recent talk on the history of Unix https://youtu.be/_2NI6t2r_Hs?t=1901 https://youtu.be/_2NI6t2r_Hs?t=1901

• ken 8y ago
  He says this is the first case of regular expressions on a computer, which I believe, but I'm not hearing anything about runtime optimization or compilation.
  • chombier 8y ago
    less than one minute later he mentions "compiling on the fly" some assembly code https://youtu.be/_2NI6t2r_Hs?t=1944 https://youtu.be/_2NI6t2r_Hs?t=1944
    • ken 8y ago
      Sure, but he never claims that's the first instance of runtime compilation, just that the implementation is "pretty interesting".