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pjmlp on June 5, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Eclipse Vert.x goes Native

Agreed, but there are ways around it.

For example, Android P will upload PGO data into the store, which is then distributed across all devices, and fed into the on-device AOT compiler.

Bjartr on June 6, 2018 [–]

I would argue that is still a JIT in the spirit of this discussion so far. That, or we need another term to disambiguate the cases of AOT(pre-distribution) and AOT(post-distribution)

pjmlp on June 7, 2018 | [–]

It is called PGO.

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