I meant that it supports dynamic translation in order to support JITs such as turbofan. But to answer your question, yes a JIT can be static. JIT just means th

I meant that it supports dynamic translation in order to support JITs such as turbofan. But to answer your question, yes a JIT can be static. JIT just means that the compilation happens at runtime, and "static" in this context means that the compilation is happening at the very start of runtime. You could imagine a JIT that compiles all bytecode to native code immediately on launch. The reason this technique is not used often is that it tends to lead to long startup times. But if the result is cached somewhere then it might be acceptable.