Comment on JIT Compiling Code in 5μsparentComments−atiedebee18dI thought the difference was that a JIT is used alongside an interpreter? It wouldn't need to do optimization, just compile while interpreting?−jagged-chisel18dHow is “alongside an interpreter” meaningfully different than “at the time of execution”?−atiedebee18d"at the time of execution" could mean that your program never runs an interpreter and instead compiles the input code before running any of it, basically like the --run option in the tiny c compiler
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I thought the difference was that a JIT is used alongside an interpreter? It wouldn't need to do optimization, just compile while interpreting?
How is “alongside an interpreter” meaningfully different than “at the time of execution”?
"at the time of execution" could mean that your program never runs an interpreter and instead compiles the input code before running any of it, basically like the --run option in the tiny c compiler