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Machine code. For code that is completely internal to some CPUs and normally inaccessible to programmers, see Microcode. In computer programming, machine code is computer code consisting of machine language instructions, which are used to control a computer's central processing unit (CPU).
In computer programming, assembly language (alternatively assembler language or symbolic machine code), often referred to simply as assembly and commonly abbreviated as ASM or asm, is any low-level programming language with a very strong correspondence between the instructions in the language and the architecture's machine code instructions.
The name "compiler" is primarily used for programs that translate source code from a high-level programming language to a low-level programming language (e.g. assembly language, object code, or machine code) to create an executable program.: p1 There are many different types of compilers which produce output in different useful forms.
Low-level programming language. A low-level programming language is a programming language that provides little or no abstraction from a computer's instruction set architecture —commands or functions in the language map that are structurally similar to processor's instructions. Generally, this refers to either machine code or assembly language.
In computing, source code, or simply code or source, is text (usually plain text) that conforms to a human-readable programming language and specifies the behavior of a computer. A programmer writes code to produce a program that runs on a computer. Since a computer, at base, only understands machine code, source must be translated in order to ...
Native (computing) In computing, native software or data-formats are those that were designed to run on a particular operating system. In a more technical sense, native code is code written specifically for a certain processor. [1] In contrast, cross-platform software can be run on multiple operating systems and/or computer architectures .
In software development, obfuscation is the act of creating source or machine code that is difficult for humans or computers to understand. Like obfuscation in natural language, it may use needlessly roundabout expressions to compose statements. Programmers may deliberately obfuscate code to conceal its purpose ( security through obscurity) or ...
Rather than implement the execution of code by virtue of a large switch statement containing every possible bytecode, while operating on a software stack or a tree walk, a template interpreter maintains a large array of bytecode (or any efficient intermediate representation) mapped directly to corresponding native machine instructions that can ...