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0 pointsJweb_Guru5y ago0 comments

> Usually if the code is really single use then the optimal solution is to interpret before JITing.

This is the conventional wisdom, yes, but recently (for very long-running database queries at least) it seems to be less true.

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saagarjha5y ago

If you know something is long running, then yes it makes sense to compile it early. If you don’t, then interpreting until you have it compiled and then OSRing usually does a good job.

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