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A program that turns Java bytecode into
processor-specific executable software. Just-in-time (jit) compilers can
help overcome the sluggish performance of a web browser's virtual machine,
which runs bytecode one instruction at a time. If the code in which a
Java Applet is written is translated into native code that the computer
understands, the underlying program can often be run much faster. Jit
companies, including ibm, microsoft, netscape and sun. |
