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Questions about programs that read code in one language (source language) and translate it into an equivalent program in another language (target language).
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Why translating a program from one high-level programming language directly into another is ...
I think that when doing the translation, you're going to encounter two main difficulties (read: things that could require lots of work):
High level languages tend to have lots of features. And even i …
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Why are some programming languages "faster" or "slower" than others?
This is especially important for runtime compilers (JIT compilers), where taking too long to compile slows down the application execution. … But it applies to ahead-of-time compilers, like those for C++ too. …
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How do compilers implement symbolic (rather than textual) insertion?
I can't wrap my head around how the compiler accomplishes this.
The compiler processes the source files in multiple passes.
In the first pass, it gathers information about types and their member …
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