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That strikes me as just-in-time optimization less so than ahead-of-time.

If the code isn't compiled until it's executed, "ahead of time" seems extremely confusing



Arguably the term "ahead of time" also suffers from the same problem. Among compiler people, "ahead of time" vs "just in time" sometimes has to do with whether the compiler uses run-time information when compiling. But the names don't reflect that, they talk about when the compilation happens.




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