🖥 Computer Science - Compilers And Interpreters

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Compilers

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A translator that converts high level language source code into object code, often machine code

Source code is translates all at once and saved to be executed later

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Interpreters

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Source code is translated and executed one line at a time

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Object Code

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Is the translated source code.

This will often be machine code but also intermediate code which has to be further translated before it can be executed

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Errors

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Interpreters can find errors when they happen and say what went wrong

Compilers cant run unless the whole code is correct so lots of errors at the beginning and hard to debug

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Speed of Interpreters

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Tend to run slower using an interpreter because it translates while it is running

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In computers

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Interpreters -> every computer that runs the program needs interpreters

Compilers -> it can run on its own

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Protection

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Compilers make it easier to be protected from alteration or copying