On Thursday, March 29, 2018, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote:
> On 2018-03-29 13:26:31 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > > > 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. > > FWIW "JIT expression compilation" is comprehensible and precise to me. David J.
