Multiple choice technology programming languages

Just-in-time (JIT) compilation improves the performance of languages that compile into bytecode. Which language featured the first JIT compiler?

  1. Java

  2. C#

  3. Smalltalk

  4. Cobol

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C Correct answer
Explanation

Smalltalk, developed at Xerox PARC in the 1970s, featured the first just-in-time (JIT) compiler in 1983 (Peter Deutsch and Allan Schiffman). Java's JIT came much later (1990s), as did C#'s.