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Yeah as a junior without a CS degree I was reading this article thinking "this is very interesting" but found it very hard to really grasp the difference betwee

Yeah as a junior without a CS degree I was reading this article thinking "this is very interesting" but found it very hard to really grasp the difference between Ahead of Time and JIT from their explanations. Just that it was different from the previous python interpreter method, which seems woefully inefficient. I do know that Java has a JIT and I've read about this, but I guess it became quickly clear that I didn't really understand it since I couldn't follow this article. I think I will need to read more about this elsewhere and come back to fully grasp the impact.

pjc50 3y ago
> very hard to really grasp the difference between Ahead of Time and JIT JIT = "just in time" = bytecode is converted to native code while the program is running, either at the startup of the program or just before a particular function is called. Sometimes even after the function is called (since the JIT process itself takes time, it may be optimal to only run it once a function has been called N times or taken M microseconds total run time) AOT = "ahead of time" = bytecode is converted to native code before the program starts. i.e. by the developer during their distribution or deployment process. AOT compilation knows nothing about the specific run time conditions.