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by klibertp 925 days ago
That's not a JIT. It uses `libgccjit` (IIRC the name), but the native code is produced ahead-of-time. JITs compile using info available on runtime, and native-comp doesn't do that. LuaJIT, by contrast, is a "real" JIT. Still, native-comp does speed things up considerably.