John Aycock credits McCarthy's Lisp work in "A brief history of just-in-time"[0] Though, as I mentioned, I believe the native code was generated when the modul

John Aycock credits McCarthy's Lisp work in "A brief history of just-in-time"[0] Though, as I mentioned, I believe the native code was generated when the module was loaded. These days, we generally consider JIT compilation to be compilation that happens at first invocation (or after, in the case of hybrid interpretation/JIT), so it doesn't precisely fit the modern notion of JIT compilation. [0] https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.97.3985 https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.97....