Skip to main content
Software Engineering

You are not logged in. Your edit will be placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed.

We welcome edits that make the post easier to understand and more valuable for readers. Because community members review edits, please try to make the post substantially better than how you found it, for example, by fixing grammar or adding additional resources and hyperlinks.

Required fields*

2
  • 1
    RE interpreting compiled code: That does make sense when one lifts the (kinda silly) restriction that "compilation" must refer to something that output machine code. A translation into bytecode is also a compiler (even most of the internals are exactly the same), yet the result must be interpreted. Unless you defictionalize the VM architecture set by casting it into silicon. Which some people consider "building specialized interpreter hardware". Commented Jul 8, 2014 at 6:56
  • Thank you. I've always thought of compilation as outputting to machine code, so I learned something here. Commented Jul 8, 2014 at 14:09