Re: Re: On Compiler/Interpreter seperation

I'm curious: what's the difference between stage 3 (assembly) and stage 4 (compilation) ?

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Re: Re: Re: On Compiler/Interpreter seperation by jryan (Vicar) on Aug 19, 2002 at 23:50 UTC
Sorry, I wasn't too clear there. Step 3 (Assemble) assembles (using the assembler assemble.pl) parrot assembly into bytecode. From there, one of two things happens: either the program is compiled into an executable, or is run. :)	[reply]