begin quoting Gabriel Sechan as of Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 01:14:52PM -0500: [snip] > >From: Wade Curry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >So, what is the difference between JIT compiling and just > >interpreting and saving the compiled objects (runtime compiled)? > >Java obviously gets compiled in a separate step, rather than > >happening at the time of the first execution; is there something > >special about byte compiling Java code that would differentiate it > >in other ways from the interpreted model? > > Java compiles its byte code (or some portion of it) into native asm at run
s/asm/object code/ > time, and keeps the native asm around. Same idea, one step further. It > may get it a smidge more performance that way, but for the most part its a > buzzword Javaites use so they can claim they're better than interpreted > languages. Bitter much? -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
