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Re:Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler by rcthompson on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @03:06PM (#16171293)
Ok, fair enough. I was worried that there was some precise definition I had missed, but if that's not the case, I agree there's no point in debating it.
Re:Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler by emn13 on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @04:42PM (#16172202)
Well, there's at least one definition that's pretty noncontroversial, if not terribly satisfying or precise: it's not a JIT if you compile well in advance of any indication the program needs to be run.

Whether that lazy-compilation strategy is fine-grained or not isn't clearcut, I believe. I think if you distribute a C program with a bash bootstrapper calling plain old gcc to compile and run the C code only when needed, even gcc might be considered a (coarse-grained, rather rudimentary) JIT in that context.

Re:Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler by kybernetikos on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @05:24PM (#16172605)