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From: silas poulson <silas8642@hotmail.co.uk>
To: Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Compilation "vs" byte-code interpretation, was Re: Looking back to 1981 - what pascal was popular on what unix?
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2022 20:09:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A6545CF1-D7FD-444E-B060-3E07DBC92C2F@hotmail.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A84C7761-A80D-4F8D-B541-2C7F7E5B5E39@hotmail.co.uk>

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Resending this as realised accidentally replied off list

Silas

On 30 Jan 2022, at 18:39, silas poulson <silas8642@hotmail.co.uk<mailto:silas8642@hotmail.co.uk>> wrote:

On 30 Jan 2022, at 18:07, Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com<mailto:drsalists@gmail.com>> wrote:
And is Java?  They both have a byte code interpreter.

My understanding is Java is both a compiled and interpreted language -
with javac compiling java code to byte code and then JVM interpreting
and executing the byte code.

And then there's the CPython implementation of Python. <snip>
Granted, it has an implicit, cached compilation step, but is it less compiled for that?

I would so no - in my mind compiling analyses the entire source and
then translates it whilst interpreters only explore a single line or
expression. Simply because the compilation happens only Just In Time,
doesn’t make it any less of a compilation step.

Hope that helps,
Silas



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       reply	other threads:[~2022-01-30 20:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <A84C7761-A80D-4F8D-B541-2C7F7E5B5E39@hotmail.co.uk>
2022-01-30 20:09 ` silas poulson [this message]
2022-01-28 23:07 [TUHS] " Will Senn
2022-01-29 19:59 ` Clem Cole
2022-01-30 16:57   ` David Barto
2022-01-30 18:07     ` [TUHS] Compilation "vs" byte-code interpretation, was " Dan Stromberg
2022-01-30 20:09       ` David Barto
2022-01-31  7:59         ` WEB
2022-01-30 22:51       ` Dan Cross
2022-01-30 23:57         ` Dan Stromberg
2022-01-31  0:23         ` Nemo Nusquam
2022-01-31  0:45           ` Steve Nickolas
2022-01-31 17:16             ` Paul Winalski
2022-01-31 20:00               ` Erik E. Fair
2022-01-31 22:45               ` Steve Nickolas
2022-02-02  4:53               ` Adam Thornton
2022-01-31  1:41       ` Phil Budne

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