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The difference is about as crystal clear as compiler/interpreter.


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Imustaskforhelp02/20/2025

compiler creates a binary in elf format or other format which can be run given a shared object exists.

Intepreter either writes it in bytecode and then executes the bytecode line by line ?

Atleast that is what I believe the difference is , care to elaborate , is there some hidden joke of compiler vs intepreter that I don't know about ?

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