February 2014
Beginner
1248 pages
62h 25m
English
Compiling a large high-level language program into machine language can take considerable computer time. Interpreter programs, developed to execute high-level language programs directly, avoid the delay of compilation, although they run slower than compiled programs. We’ll say more about interpreters in Section 1.9, where you’ll learn that Java uses a clever performance-tuned mixture of compilation and interpretation to run programs.
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