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

From Peter Geoghegan
Subject Re: pgsql: Add documentation for the JIT feature.
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Msg-id CAH2-Wzkcw_PDpYT2nNTV8hhKAb9WACBX0g2fDT-MWhvzU7zL_w@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: pgsql: Add documentation for the JIT feature.  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 12:22 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> This technique has bene called JIT since about 1983, and is well-known
> under that name, mostly because of Java.  Calling it some made-up name
> we create ourselves is not going to make this more comprehensible to
> users.

+1. You make a good point about Java. Furthermore, when people talk
about just in time compilation in database systems, which is far from
a novel thing, they generally use the word JIT.

Why confuse things?

-- 
Peter Geoghegan


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