Experiments in NES JIT Compilation

Re:Experiments in NES JIT Compilation by smegel on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @12:47AM (#15069792)

> Broadly speaking, a JIT (or just-in-time) compiler is a piece of code that translates some kind of program code into machine instructions for the host CPU.

No, that's a compiler.

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Re:Experiments in NES JIT Compilation by taneq on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @02:19AM (#15070173)

It's almost like JIT is short for "just-in-time compiler" or something.

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Re:Experiments in NES JIT Compilation by SmellyGeekBoy on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @06:10AM (#15070993)

The author goes on to clarify right in the next sentence...

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Re:Experiments in NES JIT Compilation by adwhit on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @06:48AM (#15071143)

I love the idea that someone got this far into the article, then stopped in a furious rage to fire off a missive to the HN collective. If only they had read on just One. More. Line!

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Re:Experiments in NES JIT Compilation by rjblackman on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @01:39AM (#15069994)

compilers can be used to make machine instructions for a none host CPU. he just missed out the runtime part for a jit.

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Re:Experiments in NES JIT Compilation by mathw on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @02:46AM (#15070268)

Except he didn't, it's in the very next sentence.

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