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> The term JIT was first brought into use in computing literature by James Gosling for Java. I question this. We used this term regularly in the Smalltalk comm
by travisgriggs 4y ago
> The term JIT was first brought into use in computing literature by James Gosling for Java.
I question this. We used this term regularly in the Smalltalk community at or before 1992.
But whatever. As Jan Steinman so aptly put it so many years ago:
"Java: All the speed of Smalltalk written in all the elegance of C"
- jecel 4y agoThe term "dynamic compilation" was popular in the Smalltalk community due to the 1984 paper by Deutsch and Shiffman that described what became the ParcPlace Smalltalk. In Self 1 and 2 we also used dynamic compilation and we got adaptive compilation in Self 3. This moved from Sun to Animorphic for the Strongtalk project and got bought by Sun to become the Java HotSpot technology. JIT was very popular among Japanese car manufacturers and the term was borrowed for Java. Note that Java only had simple interpreters in its first few years so we are talking the late 1990s here.