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

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: pgsql: Add documentation for the JIT feature.
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Msg-id 20180329135110.GO24540@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Re: pgsql: Add documentation for the JIT feature.  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: pgsql: Add documentation for the JIT feature.  (David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>)
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Greetings Tom, all,

* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> > Simon Riggs wrote:
> >> JIT means Just In Time, which could be applied to many concepts and
> >> has been in use for many years in a range of concepts. particularly in
> >> manufacturing/logistics and project management.
>
> > 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.
>
> I'd go a little further and drop "JIT" from user-facing documentation
> altogether.  Instead refer to the feature as "compilation of expressions"
> or some such.  JIT is just jargon.  Plus, the timing of the compilation is
> actually the least important property for our purpose.

Agreed.

Thanks!

Stephen

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