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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by gwd on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:26PM (#23604988)
> “jit interpretations”-lack of a better word.

I think this is called "transpiling" -- a version of compiling that's mainly translating from another architecture. And it didn't sound from their description like it was JIT -- it sounded like it would do the transpile when you first installed it (or maybe first ran it?) and keep the results.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by monocasa on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:28PM (#23605025)
Transpiling (as much as I hate that word, because the more you know about compilers, the more meaningless it is), is about source to source translations, not binary translation.

And they have a first pass AOT, with a JIT backup from the sounds of it to support JITs like browsers, node, and java.

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