Hello Rod!

Sunday May 15 1994 10:16, Rod Speed wrote to Hamish Moffatt:

 RS> Thats not. Strictly speaking an interpreter just interprets the code,
 RS> doesnt convert it to machine language at all, even on a line by line
 RS> basis.

So what exactly does an interpreter do? Interprets it, but changes it into what
and does what with it?

 RS> Then there is the complication of incremental compilation, what is seen
 RS> now with some modern compilers which dont completely recompile if you
 RS> change the source code in the IDE, they just compile the changed bit. So
 RS> the definitions get blurred quite a bit.

Presumably you would also need to relink the code, though linking is a much
less visible stage in say TP than it is in C/C++.


Interesting explanation of DLLs etc.


Regards,
Hamish

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