What are the advantages of just-in-time compilation versus ahead-of-time compilation?

Question

I\'ve been thinking about it lately, and it seems to me that most advantages given to JIT compilation should more or less be attributed to the intermediate

Answer 1

The difference between platform-browser-dynamic and platform-browser is the way your angular app will be compiled. Using the dynamic platform makes angular sending the Just-in-Time compiler to the front-end as well as your application. Which means your application is being compiled on client-side. On the other hand, using platform-browser leads to an Ahead-of-Time pre-compiled version of your application being sent to the browser. Which usually means a significantly smaller package being sent to the browser. The angular2-documentation for bootstrapping at https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/guide/ngmodule.html#!#bootstrap explains it in more detail.