30 Jan
2022
30 Jan
'22
9:09 p.m.
Resending this as realised accidentally replied off list
Silas
On 30 Jan 2022, at 18:39, silas poulson
<silas8642@hotmail.co.uk<mailto:silas8642@hotmail.co.uk>> wrote:
On 30 Jan 2022, at 18:07, Dan Stromberg
<drsalists@gmail.com<mailto:drsalists@gmail.com>> wrote:
And is Java? They both have a byte code interpreter.
My understanding is Java is both a compiled and interpreted language -
with javac compiling java code to byte code and then JVM interpreting
and executing the byte code.
And then there's the CPython implementation of Python. <snip>
Granted, it has an implicit, cached compilation step, but is it less compiled for that?
I would so no - in my mind compiling analyses the entire source and
then translates it whilst interpreters only explore a single line or
expression. Simply because the compilation happens only Just In Time,
doesn’t make it any less of a compilation step.
Hope that helps,
Silas