Ben Finney wrote:
"Martin P. Hellwig" <martin.hell...@dcuktec.org> writes:
Machine Code:
Whatever the machine executes, it could be that the CPU uses an
abstraction of microcode to do this but from the perspective of the
user, this is all done in the same 'black box'
This requires, of course, defining what is the machine. Python bytecode
targets a virtual machine that is implemented differently for each
hardware platform.
I would further define 'black box' as the hardware a kernel programmer
writes to.
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Interpreted:
Instructions which can be fed to a previous compiled program that is
able to dynamically change its execution and flow without the need to
recompile itself.
This doesn't make much sense to me, I must say.
I'd say, instead, that a program is interpreted if its instruction are
dynamically translated to underlying platform instructions at execution
time. This is the case for the bytecode instructions interpreted by the
Python virtual machine.
Yes that is indeed a much better description, I'll steal that from you :-)
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