A brief history of just-in-time (2003)
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[**PDF**](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/857076.857077) Software systems have been using "just-in-time" compilation (JIT) techniques since the 1960s. Broadly, JIT compilation includes any translation performed dynamically, after a program has started execution. We examine the motivation behind JIT compilation and constraints imposed on JIT compilation systems, and present a classification scheme for such systems. This classification emerges as we survey forty years of JIT work, from…
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