Re: pgsql: Add documentation for the JIT feature. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: pgsql: Add documentation for the JIT feature.
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Msg-id 20180329134219.ehn6vu26ovb352dc@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: pgsql: Add documentation for the JIT feature.  (John Naylor <jcnaylor@gmail.com>)
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John Naylor wrote:
> > I agree.  In some email threads Andres has been using "JIT" as a verb,
> > too, such as "JITing expressions" and such; that's a bit shocking, in a
> > way.  Honestly I don't care in a pgsql-hackers thread, I mean we all
> > understand what it means, but in user-facing docs and things we should
> > use complete words, "JIT-compile", "JIT-compilation", "JIT-compiling"
> > and so on.
> 
> Earlier today, I did some web searches to determine how people spell
> "JITed" (Andres' spelling), and also found JITted, JIT-ed, JIT'd, and
> jitted. No one agrees on that, but it seems very common to use "JIT"
> as a verb.

Yes: among compiler writers, people who are swimming in jitted bytes all
day long -- a tough bunch if I've seen any.  (Not that us here are
sparrows, mind.)

I meant that our docs are for normal people, not *them*.

(I too was thinking about the double 't' there while drafting the above
but decided to leave that concern out.)

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