Rick Funderburg wrote:
Java _can_ be interpreted, but with JIT, it is not interpreted; instead it is compiled at runtime. I get the sense that you know the distinction, but it did not come through clearly (at least to me) in the paragraphs above. With JIT, you take a performance hit while the compilation takes place (when the code loads), but you do not incur any performance penalties when running the code, as you would when using interpreted Java.
Actually, with Sun's JVM the compiling doesn't necessarily take place at load time. It often takes place afterwards.
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