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From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
Date: Tue,  9 Sep 2014 16:53:00 -0700
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] JIT (mostly off topic)
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The original Blit JIT (stupid name - if the compilation was "in time"
we wouldn't need a JIT. Our term was "on the fly") version was
actually done by John Reiser.

My favorite JIT I wrote was to fix up floating point after a trap on the SPARC.

-rob