MIPS is still used in cheaper routers. Was there a JIT compiler for p-code back ...

dragontamer · on March 20, 2019

Hmmm, the 1980s was before I was born. But according to records, Smalltalk-80 was implemented with a JIT machine.

See the paper: "Efficient Implementation of the Smalltalk-80 System", which suggests that code was generated on the fly.

int_19h · on March 20, 2019

Oh, there were definitely JITs back there. I meant the Pascal p-code specifically. UCSD Pascal, at least, was an interpreter.