A brief history of just-in-time

  • Authors:
  • John Aycock

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

  • Venue:
  • ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

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.