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    Tech Talk: Compiling to Bytecode with Thorsten Ball

    CoRecursive: Coding Stories · Sep 1, 2019 · 58 min
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    Tech Talks are in-depth technical discussions. What do compilers do? What is the runtime of a language? What does it mean to compile something down to bytecode and what executes the byte code. Throsten Ball Answers these questions in this interview with Adam. "A virtual machine is a computer built-in software, a CPU built-in software" "Compilers can be slow. You know, I grew up running Linux and…

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