From: Joseph M. Newcomer on
No, it does not work that way. Those were byte code interpreters. A JIT is a byte code
interpreter that compiles the byte codes to native code.
joe
On Wed, 12 May 2010 10:51:34 -0400, "RB" <NoMail(a)NoSpam> wrote:

>
>Oh ok, so it would not be the same as say the old Visual Basic
>interpreter or Autocad's AutoLisp, which is somewhat I had
>envisioned it as.
>
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