> Broadly speaking, a JIT (or just-in-time) compiler is a piece of code that translates some kind of program code into machine instructions for the host CPU. No, that's a compiler.
The author goes on to clarify right in the next sentence...
I love the idea that someone got this far into the article, then stopped in a furious rage to fire off a missive to the HN collective. If only they had read on just One. More. Line!