Interpreter: Difference between revisions
added compiler vs interpreter
No edit summary |
(added compiler vs interpreter) |
||
(3 intermediate revisions by one other user not shown) | |||
Line 1:
[[Category:Encyclopedia]]
An interpreter reads either source code or [[bytecode]] for a program, and performs the instructions specified by that program.
An interpreter is distinguished from a [[compiler]] by the fact that it doesn't need to compile the source format to a machine-readable format first; instead, it directly executes the instructions from the source.
==See also==
|