• programming, a P-code machine (portable code machine) is a virtual machine designed to execute P-code, the assembly language or machine code of a hypothetical...
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    In computer programming, machine code is computer code consisting of machine language instructions, which are used to control a computer's central processing...
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  • Look up p-code in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. P-code is an alternative term for bytecode, machine-independent code that achieves independence by...
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  • Bytecode (redirect from P-Code)
    the same code to run cross-platform, on different devices. Bytecode may often be either directly executed on a virtual machine (a p-code machine, i.e.,...
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    A machine code monitor (a.k.a. machine language monitor) is software that allows a user to enter commands to view and change memory locations on a computer...
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  • human readable source code to control the behavior of a computer. Since a computer, at base, only understands machine code, source code must be translated...
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    in which it was termed p-code and the resulting machine as a p-code machine. This has been influential, and virtual machines in this sense have been...
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  • adventure games. Infocom compiled game code to files containing Z-machine instructions (called story files or Z-code files) and could therefore port its...
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  • scientist who designed the NCR Corporation version of the p-code machine, which is a kind of stack machine popular in the 1970s as the preferred way to implement...
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  • representation (IR) is the data structure or code used internally by a compiler or virtual machine to represent source code. An IR is designed to be conducive to...
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    steganography, DocuColor tracking dots, yellow dots, secret dots, or a machine identification code (MIC), is a digital watermark which many color laser printers...
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    UCSD Pascal (redirect from UCSD p-System)
    versions of UCSD p-code engine, each with several revisions of the p-System and UCSD Pascal. A revision of the p-code engine (i.e., the p-Machine) meant a change...
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    image. Whereas a barcode is a machine-readable optical image that contains information specific to the labeled item, the QR code contains the data for a locator...
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    computing, assembly language (alternatively assembler language or symbolic machine code), often referred to simply as assembly and commonly abbreviated as ASM...
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    and extended ed.). Berlin: Springer. p. 133. ISBN 9783540245025. OCLC 255507974. van Vark, Tatjana The coding machine Bauer, F. L. (2000). Decrypted Secrets...
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  • so a rich set of operations can be computed. In stack machine code (sometimes called p-code), instructions will frequently have only an opcode commanding...
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  • automated machine tools, as well as for 3D-printer slicer applications. G-code has many variants. G-code instructions are provided to a machine controller...
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  • Machine, p.8 "Codes And Signals - More Discussion On The Radio Code Problems". "Proposed Revision Of "10" Signals" (PDF). "The Origin of The Ten Code"...
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  • specifically to run the UCSD p-System efficiently. Compared to other microcomputers, which use a machine language p-code interpreter, the Pascal MicroEngine...
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  • limit, the runtime system may provide services such as a P-code machine or virtual machine, that hide even the processor's instruction set. This is the...
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    are delivered to a CNC machine in the form of a sequential program of machine control instructions such as G-code and M-code, and then executed. The...
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  • Infrastructure as code (IaC) is the process of managing and provisioning computer data center resources through machine-readable definition files, rather...
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  • running the same machine code, so that a lower-performance, lower-cost machine can be replaced with a higher-cost, higher-performance machine without having...
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    is called source code. Source code needs another computer program to execute because computers can only execute their native machine instructions. Therefore...
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  • programming languages that are more easily intelligible to humans than machine code, which is directly executed by the central processing unit. Proficient...
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  • Compiler (redirect from Code compilation)
    source code from a high-level programming language to a low-level programming language (e.g. assembly language, object code, or machine code) to create...
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  • translation to machine code, which is then executed directly. A system implementing a JIT compiler typically continuously analyses the code being executed...
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  • usually a machine code language (i.e., binary) or an intermediate language such as register transfer language (RTL). The term indicates that the code is the...
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  • type boundaries and permission. Code security generally refers to the ability of the portable virtual machine to run code while offering it only a prescribed...
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    compiled into a machine language program. An interpreter generally uses one of the following strategies for program execution: Parse the source code and perform...
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