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Jit vs Jist - What's the difference?

jit | jist |

As nouns the difference between jit and jist

is that jit is an inexperienced, foolhardy young man or jit can be a style of zimbabwean dance music (as the bhundu boys) played with drums and guitar while jist is (rare).

As a verb jit

is (computing|transitive) to compile (program code for a virtual machine) immediately when needed, as part of the execution process.

As an adverb jist is

(nonstandard) alternative form of just.

jit

English

(wikipedia JIT)

Noun

(en-initialism)
  • (operations)
  • (computing, of bytecode optimizations)

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (computing, of bytecode optimizations) to perform an operation (usually compiling) Just-In-Time

    • jist

    English

    Adverb

    (head)
  • (nonstandard) alternative form of just
  • *1838 , -Charles Dickens:
  • *:'Mister Muntlehiney,' said the man. 'Wot's come on him? Is he at home?'
  • *:'He is above stairs, I believe,' replied Kate, a little reassured by this inquiry. 'Do you want him?'
  • *:'No,' replied the visitor. 'I don't ezactly want him, if it's made a favour on. You can jist give him that 'ere card, and tell him if he wants to speak to ME, and save trouble, here I am; that's all.'
  • *1884 , -Mark Twain:
  • *:They get all their chawing by borrowing; they say to a fellow, "I wisht you'd len' me a chaw, Jack, I jist this minute give Ben Thompson the last chaw I had"—which is a lie pretty much everytime;

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare)

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