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Comment by archargelod

I still classify JIT languages as interpreted, because they require a runtime and it kills the convenience of sharing small binary e.g. in C or Nim.

And Julia docs are also unambigious in stating that code is sometimes interpreted[0]:

> jl_toplevel_eval_flex() then uses some simple heuristics to decide whether to JIT compile the AST or to interpret it directly.

[0] - https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/devdocs/eval/#Julia-Executi...

parent archargelod 2 months ago

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