Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that compiles.
- noun Computers A program that translates another program written in a high-level language into machine language so that it can be executed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who compiles; one who makes a compilation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who compiles; esp., one who makes books by compilation.
- noun (Computers) a computer program that decodes instructions written in a higher-level computer language to produce an assembly-language program or an executable program in machine language.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
compiles . - noun computing A computer
program which transformssource code intoobject code .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program
- noun a person who compiles information (as for reference purposes)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Saving energy and boosting performance with an easy-to-implement software compiler is a problem worth solving, especially as we rely more and more on specialized chips, be they in our antilock brakes or our iPhones.
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This would be the major focal point of practical and research work, based on reading in compiler creation and on the language designed.
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"Fran Allen's work has led to remarkable advances in compiler design and machine architecture that are at the foundation of modern high-performance computing," said Ruzena Bajcsy, Chair of ACM's Turing Award Committee, and professor of Electrical and Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
Archive 2007-03-01 Peggy 2007
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She is considered to be the pioneer in compiler optimization, and during her talk she described the projects she had worked on in IBM.
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"Fran Allen's work has led to remarkable advances in compiler design and machine architecture that are at the foundation of modern high-performance computing," said Ruzena Bajcsy, Chair of ACM's Turing Award Committee, and professor of Electrical and Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
Frances Allen - First Woman to Win the Turing Award Peggy 2007
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NET compiler is now working, and as a nearly-free bonus for using the.
Boing Boing 2007
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Although the work in the compiler is not finished, Wiz also takes time to create some new spells to help common folk to deal with magical threats.
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As for the expression compiler, there is a demo program "ScriptDemo" for you to play with the
Dashboard RSS Feed 2010
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One of the job of the compiler is code optimization, in particular using less memory storage and executing commands quickly.
MyAppleMenu 2009
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So you have a high-level english-like program, and you have this complex process called a compiler that takes that high-level program and maps it to another equivalent form in machine language.
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