• Bytecode (also called portable code or p-code) is a form of instruction set designed for efficient execution by a software interpreter. Unlike human-readable...
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    code and immediately execute that; Explicitly execute stored precompiled bytecode made by a compiler and matched with the interpreter's virtual machine....
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  • a single byte, hence the name bytecode, making it a compact form of data. Due to the nature of bytecode, a Java bytecode program is runnable on any machine...
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    as programs written in other languages that are also compiled to Java bytecode. The JVM is detailed by a specification that formally describes what is...
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  • without the need to recompile. Java applications are typically compiled to bytecode that can run on any Java virtual machine (JVM) regardless of the underlying...
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    Peter (18 June 2015). "The Web is getting its bytecode: WebAssembly". Ars Technica. Condé Nast. "New Bytecode Alliance Brings the Security, Ubiquity, and...
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  • execution. This may consist of source code translation but is more commonly bytecode translation to machine code, which is then executed directly. A system...
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  • make up the Java bytecode, an abstract machine language that is ultimately executed by the Java virtual machine. The Java bytecode is generated from...
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  • The OCaml toolchain includes an interactive top-level interpreter, a bytecode compiler, an optimizing native code compiler, a reversible debugger, and...
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  • intermediate representation (PIR, an intermediate language) to Parrot bytecode and execute it. Parrot is free and open-source software. Parrot was started...
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  • HHVM (redirect from HipHop bytecode)
    JIT compilation, Hack code is first transformed into intermediate HipHop bytecode (HHBC), which is then dynamically translated into x86-64 machine code,...
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  • intermediate form such as bytecode. A program compiled to native code tends to run faster than if interpreted. Environments with a bytecode intermediate form...
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    computers and their successors. Machine code is generally different from bytecode (also known as p-code), which is either executed by an interpreter or itself...
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  • language such as C or C++, or an intermediate representation such as Java bytecode or Common Intermediate Language (CIL) code, into native machine code so...
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  • machine or p-code machine can be considered an intermediate language: Java bytecode Microsoft's Common Intermediate Language is an intermediate language designed...
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  • virtual machine is a special type of interpreter that interprets bytecode. Bytecode is a portable low-level code similar to machine code, though it is...
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    Oberon-2 (redirect from Keiko bytecode)
    the Oxford Oberon-2 compiler first compiles to an intermediate bytecode (Keiko bytecode) which can be interpreted with a byte-code interpreter or use just-in-time...
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  • Then, Ignition generates bytecode from this syntax tree using the internal V8 bytecode format. TurboFan compiles this bytecode into machine code. In other...
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  • machine (JVM) bytecode or to machine code for a number of CPU architectures. It could also compile class files and whole JARs that contain bytecode into machine...
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    optimizations, including bytecode inline caching, eager evaluation of coroutines, a method-at-a-time JIT, and an experimental bytecode compiler. The Snek embedded...
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  • A method that combines compiling and interpreting is to first produce bytecode, which is an intermediate representation of source code that is quickly...
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  • as both an interpreter and a compiler as it compiles Python code into bytecode before interpreting it. It has a foreign function interface with several...
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    Microsoft Windows operating systems. CLISP includes an interpreter, a bytecode compiler, debugger, socket interface, high-level foreign language interface...
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  • Common Intermediate Language (category Bytecodes)
    which target the CLI compile to CIL. CIL is object-oriented, stack-based bytecode. Runtimes typically just-in-time compile CIL instructions into native code...
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  • microcontroller. MicroPython consists of a Python compiler to bytecode and a runtime interpreter of that bytecode. The user is presented with an interactive prompt...
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    expected to reference and then generate bytecode which can be executed with reduced run-time overhead. This bytecode can also be optimised using compilation...
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  • Application virtual machines are typically used to allow application bytecode to run portably on many different computer architectures and operating...
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  • for Android applications and native machine code. It decompiles Dalvik bytecode to Java source code, and x86, ARM, MIPS, RISC-V machine code to C source...
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  • Dalvik (software) (category Bytecodes)
    operating system that executes applications written for Android. (Dalvik bytecode format is still used as a distribution format, but no longer at runtime...
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  • called qcc into a bytecode kept in a file called progs.dat. The programmers of Quake modifications could then publish their progs.dat bytecode without revealing...
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