Re: pgsql: Add documentation for the JIT feature.

From: John Naylor <jcnaylor(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: 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 13:33:09
Message-ID: CAJVSVGW3H6C6XnbeA_x2+CPazfd-LXRFps5+4oxPGNdh1eUHHQ@mail.gmail.com
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> 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.

Earlier today, I did some web searches to determine how people spell
"JITed" (Andres' spelling), and also found JITted, JIT-ed, JIT'd, and
jitted. No one agrees on that, but it seems very common to use "JIT"
as a verb. See the LLVM docs:

https://llvm.org/docs/DebuggingJITedCode.html

-John Naylor

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