Definitions

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  • noun computing P-code (various forms of instruction sets designed for efficient execution by a software interpreter as well as being suitable for further compilation into machine code)

Etymologies

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From byte + code.

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Examples

  • Apps written for Android are "compiled" into bytecode, which is NOT native machine code.

    Neowin.net 2010

  • A note on JVM vs. JRE: the JVM actually executes Java bytecode, which is what every compiled JVM language ends up as.

    Fusion Authority - The House of Fusion Technical Magazine 2010

  • The software is running a full version 1.6 Java virtual machine (JVM), the Java software component that actually runs Java programs once they're converted into an intermediate form called bytecode, Gibbs said.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0 2009

  • The software is running a full version 1.6 Java virtual machine (JVM), the Java software component that runs Java programs once they are converted into an intermediate form called bytecode, Gibbs said.

    ZDNet UK Highlights 2009

  • The software is running a full version 1.6 Java virtual machine (JVM), the Java software component that runs Java programs once they are converted into an intermediate form called bytecode, Gibbs said.

    ZDNet UK Highlights 2009

  • The software is running a full version 1.6 Java virtual machine (JVM), the Java software component that actually runs Java programs once they're converted into an intermediate form called bytecode, Gibbs said.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0 2009

  • At runtime, the ActionScript Virtual Machine or AVM2 converts the bytecode to native machine code, process called bytecode compilation.

    MyAppleMenu 2009

  • One generates bytecode which is then interpreted by a

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2010

  • Scripts are often, but not always, interpreted from the source code or "semi-compiled" to bytecode which is interpreted, unlike the applications they are associated with, which are traditionally compiled to native machine code for the system on which they run.

    unknown title 2009

  • Since Equinox Aspects is not tightly bound to AspectJ weaving only, you could re-use the base infrastructure to hook any kind of bytecode modifier into the Equinox runtime - and reuse the caching of Equinox Aspects at the same time.

    PlanetJava 2009

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