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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.


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WalterBrightlast Saturday at 12:36 AM

Recognizing `3+x*(2+y)` is compilation - even if the program is being executed while compiling it.

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