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What about when it's a machine for which hardware doesn't actually exist... like a virtual one? How is that less unnecessary?


I wouldn't call a JIT compiler an emulator.

However, it's certainly unnecessary (why not just generate the machine code already?), and it generates slower code because JIT compiling is a more difficult task due to the fact that the time limits on the optimizer itself are pretty harsh.




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