alt Hacker NewsTokenizing it and interpreting the token stream is still a compilation process. Even if it re-tokenized it each time it executed a line.
Tokenizing it and interpreting the token stream is still a compilation process. Even if it re-tokenized it each time it executed a line.
Tokenizing is a necessary but not a sufficient task for compilation. I could tokenize this comment to efficiently store it in a database but that would have nothing to do with compilation.