2003/06/01 by John Aycock · 3 citations
Computer Science · #Logic, programming, and type systems #Software Engineering Research #Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques
paper · doi:10.1145/857076.857077
openalex publication_date 2003/06/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/15
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 1960--2000.