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title: "What is JIT?"  
description: "What is JIT?"  
author: "Shikhar Arora"  
published: 2019-12-07  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/92547/what-is-jit  
category: "technology"  
tags: [".net programming"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is JIT?

What is [JIT](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/159591/what-is-the-use-of-jit)

## Answers

### Answer by Shrikant Mishra

The JIT(Just-In-Time compiler) is a part of Common Language Runtime (CLR) in .NET framwork, which is responsible for managing the execution of .NET programs regardless of any .NET programming language. The language-specific compiler converts the source code to the intermediate language. It is intermediate language is then converted into the machine code by the Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler. These machine code is specific to the computer environment that the JIT compiler runs on.

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