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+   Just-in-Time (<acronym class="acronym">JIT</acronym>) compilation is the process of turning
+   some form of interpreted program evaluation into a native program, and
+   doing so at run time.
+   For example, instead of using general-purpose code that can evaluate
+   arbitrary SQL expressions to evaluate a particular SQL predicate
+   like <code class="literal">WHERE a.col = 3</code>, it is possible to generate a
+   function that is specific to that expression and can be natively executed
+   by the CPU, yielding a speedup.
+  </p><p>
+   <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> has builtin support to perform
+   <acronym class="acronym">JIT</acronym> compilation using <a class="ulink" href="https://llvm.org/" target="_top"><span class="productname">LLVM</span></a> when
+   <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> is built with
+   <a class="link" href="install-procedure.html#CONFIGURE-WITH-LLVM"><code class="literal">--with-llvm</code></a>.
+  </p><p>
+   See <code class="filename">src/backend/jit/README</code> for further details.
+  </p><div class="sect2" id="JIT-ACCELERATED-OPERATIONS"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">31.1.1. <acronym class="acronym">JIT</acronym> Accelerated Operations</h3></div></div></div><p>
+    Currently <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span>'s <acronym class="acronym">JIT</acronym>
+    implementation has support for accelerating expression evaluation and
+    tuple deforming.  Several other operations could be accelerated in the
+    future.
+   </p><p>
+    Expression evaluation is used to evaluate <code class="literal">WHERE</code>
+    clauses, target lists, aggregates and projections. It can be accelerated
+    by generating code specific to each case.
+   </p><p>
+    Tuple deforming is the process of transforming an on-disk tuple (see <a class="xref" href="storage-page-layout.html#STORAGE-TUPLE-LAYOUT" title="69.6.1. Table Row Layout">Section 69.6.1</a>) into its in-memory representation.
+    It can be accelerated by creating a function specific to the table layout
+    and the number of columns to be extracted.
+   </p></div><div class="sect2" id="JIT-INLINING"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">31.1.2. Inlining</h3></div></div></div><p>
+    <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> is very extensible and allows new
+    data types, functions, operators and other database objects to be defined;
+    see <a class="xref" href="extend.html" title="Chapter 37. Extending SQL">Chapter 37</a>. In fact the built-in objects are implemented
+    using nearly the same mechanisms.  This extensibility implies some
+    overhead, for example due to function calls (see <a class="xref" href="xfunc.html" title="37.3. User-Defined Functions">Section 37.3</a>).
+    To reduce that overhead, <acronym class="acronym">JIT</acronym> compilation can inline the
+    bodies of small functions into the expressions using them. That allows a
+    significant percentage of the overhead to be optimized away.
+   </p></div><div class="sect2" id="JIT-OPTIMIZATION"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">31.1.3. Optimization</h3></div></div></div><p>
+    <span class="productname">LLVM</span> has support for optimizing generated
+    code. Some of the optimizations are cheap enough to be performed whenever
+    <acronym class="acronym">JIT</acronym> is used, while others are only beneficial for
+    longer-running queries.
+    See <a class="ulink" href="https://llvm.org/docs/Passes.html#transform-passes" target="_top">https://llvm.org/docs/Passes.html#transform-passes</a> for
+    more details about optimizations.
+   </p></div></div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional" class="navfooter"><hr></hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="jit.html" title="Chapter 31. Just-in-Time Compilation (JIT)">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="jit.html" title="Chapter 31. Just-in-Time Compilation (JIT)">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="jit-decision.html" title="31.2. When to JIT?">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Chapter 31. Just-in-Time Compilation (<acronym xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="acronym">JIT</acronym>) </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html" title="PostgreSQL 13.4 Documentation">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> 31.2. When to <acronym xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="acronym">JIT</acronym>?</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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