It compiles Ahead Of Time, i.e. you compile to a binary which then can be executed, as opposed to intepreted, like Lua, or JIT (Just In Time - i.e. compiles at

It compiles Ahead Of Time, i.e. you compile to a binary which then can be executed, as opposed to intepreted, like Lua, or JIT (Just In Time - i.e. compiles at runtime when required/hot path) like LuaJIT.