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BIT compilationBIT compilationPosted Aug 21, 2006 9:20 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)In reply to: Mono libraries by dark Parent article: Take notes with Tomboy (Linux.com) :D Yes, it can be a bit confusing. JIT stands for "Just in time" and is a technique whereby the bytecode is translated to machine code before execution. Old JVM's would just interpret bytecode as it came along, which performed very slowly for loops and the such; new JVM's (pioneered by Symantec IIRC) translate the machine-independent bytecode to machine-specific code and then execute that. The convoluted term "pre-JIT" would stand for an optimization to do this translation ahead of execution; you might call it "BIT" or "Before its time" compilation.
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