%0 Journal Article %1 Aycock:2003:BHJ %A Aycock, John %D 2003 %I ACM %J ACM Comput. Surv. %K Classification JIT Survey VMs compiler %N 2 %P 97--113 %R 10.1145/857076.857077 %T A Brief History of Just-In-Time %V 35 %X 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.

@article{Aycock:2003:BHJ, 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.}, added-at = {2010-02-24T10:33:00.000+0100}, author = {Aycock, John}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/236cc966af27c442d604ca5a0d60b4374/gron}, description = {A brief history of just-in-time}, doi = {10.1145/857076.857077}, interhash = {cc68a74e1ef1393778f38e112d574efd}, intrahash = {36cc966af27c442d604ca5a0d60b4374}, issn = {0360-0300}, journal = {ACM Comput. Surv.}, keywords = {Classification JIT Survey VMs compiler}, month = jun, number = 2, numpages = {17}, pages = {97--113}, publisher = {ACM}, timestamp = {2014-04-25T13:15:05.000+0200}, title = {A Brief History of Just-In-Time}, volume = 35, year = 2003 }