Today I read an article about the JIT compiler and a fragment of text from this article:
Translating human-readable code to machine code can happen in three different ways: Ahead Of Time (AOT) compilation, Just In Time (JIT)
compilation or, our favorite, interpretation (or Implicit
Compilation).
gave me the following thoughts:
One of the popular questions about php is whether php is a compiled language or an interpreted language. If you google it now, you will get a seemingly clear answer, but is it?
A JIT compiler was added to PHP 8. Can we now say that PHP since version 8 is a compiled language? Or would “partially compiled” be a better definition?