A programming language that is a machine independent and not tied to a specific CPU family. The source code of such a language is converted into machine language with software called a "compiler." See ...
A compiler that generates machine language for a different type of computer than the one the compiler is running in. See cross assembler and compiler. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All ...
Java compilers take center stage in this second article in the JVM performance optimization series. Eva Andreasson introduces the different breeds of compiler and compares performance results from ...