bytecode

Form of instruction set designed to be run by a software interpreter

EntityQ837330

Also known as p-code · byte-code · portable code

Subclass of: instruction set architecture

Overview

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Bytecode is an instruction set designed for efficient execution by a software interpreter. Unlike human-readable source code, bytecodes are compact numeric codes, constants, and references that encode the result of compiler parsing and performing semantic analysis of things like type, scope, and nesting depths of program objects.

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13 statements · 31% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Different from: intermediate representation
Used by: intermediate representation nature of statement: often
Has use: interpreted language

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9 identifiers linking bytecode across the web's reference databases

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