`javac` is a compiler. The JVM is an execution platform, just like modern x86.

pvg · on May 1, 2018

What's the word that comes after 'JIT'?

coldtea · on May 1, 2018

What the word is not really important.

JITting is also called "dynamic translation", which is what a CPU does with microcode.

Whether that's a full compiler or not is beyond pedantic -- and irrelevant to the parent's point.

pvg · on May 2, 2018

The parent is telling me how the JVM doesn't have a compiler, which was my claim. It has a couple full-blown compilers.

which is what a CPU does with microcode.

Either you know something about current x86 CPUs that I don't or words and technical terms are, indeed, not important and have no meaning.