A Brief History of Just-in-Time

Aycock, J. (2003). A Brief History of Just-in-Time. ACM Computing Surveys, 35(2), 97-113.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2003

Volume

35

Issue

2

Pages

97-113

DOI

10.1145/857076.857077

DOI registrant

Association for Computing Machinery

Link

https://doi.org/10.1145/857076.857077

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• Fast-Path / Slow-Path Architecture
  • In compilers and runtimes, an interpreter handles cold code while a JIT compiles hot paths, with execution-count profiling as the trigger.

    This sourceSurveys interpreter-plus-JIT designs in which execution-count (hotness) profiling triggers compilation of hot code, supporting the compiler/runtime use and the escalation-rate (JIT-promotion-rate) metric.

    Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract

    The abstract confirms only that this is a survey of JIT (dynamic) compilation and its classification; it does not state the interpreter-cold/JIT-hot split or execution-count profiling as the compile trigger.

    “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 1960--2000.”

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