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Tutorial: Compiler's State Machine
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Introduction
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Here is the state diagram of the JIT compiler. States are stored in ``J->state`` at the time of writing (Jan 2018). "Normal" transitions between states are marked with green arrows.

.. image:: images/plantuml-compiler.png
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        :alt: metrics
        :width: 500px