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Re:C Is Not a Low-Level Language by pvg on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @02:00PM (#16969563)
What's the word that comes after 'JIT'?
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Re:C Is Not a Low-Level Language by coldtea on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @05:29PM (#16971866)
What the word is not really important.

JITting is also called "dynamic translation", which is what a CPU does with microcode.

Whether that's a full compiler or not is beyond pedantic -- and irrelevant to the parent's point.

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Re:C Is Not a Low-Level Language by pvg on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @08:47PM (#16973167)
The parent is telling me how the JVM doesn't have a compiler, which was my claim. It has a couple full-blown compilers.

which is what a CPU does with microcode.

Either you know something about current x86 CPUs that I don't or words and technical terms are, indeed, not important and have no meaning.

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