Re: JIT? [Re: Interesting piece: Objective-C on Java VM?]

[Ken Cline]

On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Rod Price wrote:

> Ken Cline wrote:
> 
> > JIT - Just-In-Time Compiler compiles bytecode into an
> > executable; the output from a JIT Compiler is, of course,
> > no longer necessarily platform independent.
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've never seen _any_ output
> from a JIT compiler.  The system throws the compiled code
> away the moment it has finished executing.

Sorry, poor choice of words... I didn't mean imply that the
JIT compiler was generating a binary that would persist
after it completed executing.  I only meant that, in the
process of running, the JIT compiler maintains a "cache" of
native binary code.


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