| Summary: | www-client/seamonkey: consider moving to global jit USE flag | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) <tetromino> |
| Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) <polynomial-c> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | CC: | mozilla |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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Description
Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED)
2012-05-19 10:10:04 UTC
methodjit and tracejit are not compilers. (In reply to comment #1) > methodjit and tracejit are not compilers. With all due respect, I did not understand your comment at all. If you are referring to the traditional distinction between compilers and interpreters, the acronym JIT (as e.g. used in "methodjit") has always stood for "just-in-time compilation" (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_compilation or your favorite dictionary of computing). You may of course argue that "just-in-time compilation" is not really compilation at all, but that's about as pointless as refusing to use the phrase "mountain lion" because it's not really a lion, or "soy milk" because it contains no milk. Noun phrases in the English language very frequently mean something other than the literal conjunction of their component words. If on the other hand you meant that Mozilla does not internally use the word "compiler" when referring to methodjit, then you are simply mistaken: "compiler" occurs 9 times on https://wiki.mozilla.org/JaegerMonkey |