Greetings, * Andres Freund (and...@anarazel.de) wrote: > On 2018-03-29 13:26:31 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 9:44 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > > 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. > > > > I agree that talking about JIT compilation (or just-in-time > > compilation) would be better than talking just about JIT, but refusing > > to mention JIT seems counter-productive to me. There are a lot of > > people who know what just-in-time compilation is and will not realize > > that "compilation of expressions" refers to any such technology. If > > you don't know what it is, you can Google it. Just typing "jit" into > > Google produces a stupid urban dictionary hit and then this: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_compilation -- and that > > contains useful information that you'll never find if you search for > > "compilation of expressions". > > > > Also, in a way, you could argue that v10 already did "compilation of > > expressions". It didn't compile them to machine language, true, but > > it translated them into a form which is faster to execute, and which > > is at least arguably a form of bytecode. It's not going to be clear, > > even to an expert, that "compilation of expressions" means something > > other than that, but if you say JIT, then all of a sudden people know > > what we're talking about. > > > > I agree that JIT is jargon, but it's pretty commonly-used jargon. > > Precisely this. I'm very strongly against just saying "expression > compilation", it's just too imprecise. As Robert mentions it could refer > to what we do in v10, it could refer to ahead of time compilation of PL > functions, and it doesn't include compiling tuple deforming. Nor will > it describe compiling sorting, copy or whatnot. > > I'm very open however to replacing JITing with JIT compiling and smilar > substitutions.
What we've done elsewhere when there's been similar jargon is to say something along the lines of: "compiling of routines (also known as Just-In-Time or JIT compilation)" Thanks! Stephen
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