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direwolf20yesterday at 3:59 PM2 repliesview on HN

Interpreters don't translate bytecode to native instructions.


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SJC_Hackeryesterday at 4:13 PM

The usual understanding of "interpreter" in a CS context is program that executes source code directly without a compilation step. However the binary that translates an intermediate bytecode to native machine code is at least sometimes called a "bytecode interpreter".

https://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/interpreter.html

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