The term "dynamic compilation" was popular in the Smalltalk community due to the 1984 paper by Deutsch and Shiffman that described what became the ParcPlace Sma

The 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.