From: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: pgsql: Add documentation for the JIT feature. |
Date: | 2018-03-29 13:51:10 |
Message-ID: | 20180329135110.GO24540@tamriel.snowman.net |
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Greetings Tom, all,
* Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> > Simon Riggs wrote:
> >> JIT means Just In Time, which could be applied to many concepts and
> >> has been in use for many years in a range of concepts. particularly in
> >> manufacturing/logistics and project management.
>
> > I agree. In some email threads Andres has been using "JIT" as a verb,
> > too, such as "JITing expressions" and such; that's a bit shocking, in a
> > way. Honestly I don't care in a pgsql-hackers thread, I mean we all
> > understand what it means, but in user-facing docs and things we should
> > use complete words, "JIT-compile", "JIT-compilation", "JIT-compiling"
> > and so on.
>
> I'd go a little further and drop "JIT" from user-facing documentation
> altogether. Instead refer to the feature as "compilation of expressions"
> or some such. JIT is just jargon. Plus, the timing of the compilation is
> actually the least important property for our purpose.
Agreed.
Thanks!
Stephen
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