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/**
* Runtime code-generation, compilation and bytecode-manipulation utilities.
*
* To achieve optimal performance in a dynamic schema environment, Drill
* includes a complete code generation system for generating type-specific Java
* code for most of its physical operators. This generated code is used for
* scalar expression evaluation as well as value transfers between record
* batches. As a new schema arrives at an operator, the schema change will be
* detected and prompt runtime code generation. This runtime-generated code will
* evaluate the expressions needed for the operator to process the incoming
* data. As the same code will often be run on a number of nodes in the cluster,
* compiled classes are stored in the distributed cache to avoid the need to re-
* compile and JIT-optimize the same code on every machine.
*/
package org.apache.drill.exec.compile;