What it means to be Just In Time

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Explains what the JVM actually does: JIT chooses hot methods and applies method inlining and dead‑code elimination; uses JMH microbenchmarks and JVM flags (-XX:+PrintCompilation, -XX:+PrintInlining, PrintAssembly) plus JITWatch and the HotSpot disassembler to verify optimizations. Shows escape analysis removing heap allocations (0 GC vs ~5,500 GC events, ~2ns vs ~5.5ns), polymorphism cost when 3+ types raises per‑call latency (~5.5ns→~8ns), and safepoint pauses from array copies jumping to ~62ms. Provides concrete flags and measurements to reproduce.

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1. 0:00Introduction to JIT
2. 1:13JIT vs static compilation
3. 3:44JVM interpreter and profiling
4. 7:37Verifying JIT with JMH
5. 11:55Debugging JIT optimizations
6. 16:30Inlining optimization
7. 20:45Dead code elimination
8. 27:40Escape analysis
9. 31:20Polymorphism optimization
10. 39:24Safe points in JVM
11. 51:59Summary and key takeaways

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