from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun One that compiles.
noun Computers A program that translates another program written in a high-level language into machine language so that it can be executed.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun One who compiles; one who makes a compilation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun One who compiles; esp., one who makes books by compilation.
noun (Computers) a computer program that decodes instructions written in a higher-level computer language to produce an assembly-language program or an executable program in machine language.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun One who compiles.
noun computing A computer program which transforms source code into object code.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun (computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program
noun a person who compiles information (as for reference purposes)
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
to compile + -er.
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Saving energy and boosting performance with an easy-to-implement software compiler is a problem worth solving, especially as we rely more and more on specialized chips, be they in our antilock brakes or our iPhones.
"Fran Allen's work has led to remarkable advances in compiler design and machine architecture that are at the foundation of modern high-performance computing," said Ruzena Bajcsy, Chair of ACM's Turing Award Committee, and professor of Electrical and Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
"Fran Allen's work has led to remarkable advances in compiler design and machine architecture that are at the foundation of modern high-performance computing," said Ruzena Bajcsy, Chair of ACM's Turing Award Committee, and professor of Electrical and Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
So you have a high-level english-like program, and you have this complex process called a compiler that takes that high-level program and maps it to another equivalent form in machine language.
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