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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    programming, assembly language (alternatively assembler language or symbolic machine code), often referred to simply as assembly and commonly abbreviated as ASM...
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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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  • 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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  • Bytecode (redirect from Byte 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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  • script code into a server-side application. Other approaches must be taken, however, when dealing with injections of user code on a user-operated machine, which...
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  • In computer science, self-modifying code (SMC or SMoC) is code that alters its own instructions while it is executing – usually to reduce the instruction...
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    The machine's code was cracked by Poland, France, the United Kingdom and the United States; the latter code-named it INDIGO. An Enigma T model, code-named...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • programming instructions written in human convenient form into machine language codes that the computers understand and process. It is a generic term...
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  • generate code in that form or be implemented in that form themselves. The code may be processed by an interpreter or it may simply be a sequence of machine code...
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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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  • source code is exactly equivalent to its own output. Metamorphic code also usually outputs machine code and not its own source code. Metamorphic code is used...
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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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    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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  • In computing, position-independent code (PIC) or position-independent executable (PIE) is a body of machine code that executes properly regardless of...
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  • Microcode (redirect from Micro-code)
    known as its machine code.[page needed] It consists of a set of hardware-level instructions that implement the higher-level machine code instructions...
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    Snippet is a programming term for a small region of re-usable source code, machine code, or text. Ordinarily, these are formally defined operative units to...
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  • file that contains machine code or bytecode, as well as other data and metadata, generated by a compiler or assembler from source code during the compilation...
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    Executable (redirect from Executable code)
    executable machine code file or a non-executable machine code – object file of some sort; the equivalent process on assembly language source code is called...
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    description and target code generation. A notable 1966 example was the O-code machine, a virtual machine that executes O-code (object code) emitted by the front...
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  • Penrose goes further and writes out his entire U-machine code. He asserts that it truly is a U-machine code, an enormous number that spans almost 2 full pages...
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  • code bloat is the production of program code (source code or machine code) that is unnecessarily long, slow, or otherwise wasteful of resources. Code...
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  • intermediate representation of source code is converted into a form (e.g., machine code) that can be readily executed by the target system. Sophisticated compilers...
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