I vaguely recall a talk by Stefan Karpinsky where he mentions meeting one of the big names in compiler land (working on V8 or something) and they said Julia's J

I vaguely recall a talk by Stefan Karpinsky where he mentions meeting one of the big names in compiler land (working on V8 or something) and they said Julia's JIT is just a lazily evaluated AOT compiler, and as a result much simpler than the JITs typically seen in other languages.