What would a compiler interpreter that executes machine code be called?

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From: "Parzival" <parz@RemoveThisSpamBucket.home.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 22 Oct 2000 01:18:47 -0400
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Keywords: question, practice

I was doing some writing, and I wanted to discuss a compiler that
compiled to native machine code in memory, and then executed that
code, and I am lacking a term.


We know that a language processing program which analyzes source code,
and produces "object code", be that machine code, or "virtual" machine
code, is called a "compiler" (like gcc). A program which interprets
native or "virtual" machine code is called an "interpreter". A
compiler-interpreter program which combines "virtual" code generation
with immediate execution, such as Perl or Python seems generally to be
called an "interpreter". So, what term would distinguish a Perl or
Python type program from one which which combines native code
generation with immediate execution?
[I'd suggest "compile and go", that's what we always used to call it. -John]









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