The interpreter quickly executes each statement after translating it into machine code or intermediate code, rather than translating the entire program at once.

Writing a compiler seems like a much harder problem than an interpreter. If that is so, why was the first compiler written six years before the first interpreter?

Zapcc, a caching C++ compiler built for speed, has gone open source. Ceemple Software, Zapcc’s builder, claims the compiler offers dramatic improvements in both incremental and full builds ...

Fable 3, the latest release of the Fable compiler for writing JavaScript applications with Microsoft’s F# functional language, is now available, offering simpler usage, more readable code, and ...

Both were introduced three years ago as a part of a two-tier compiler system. Ignition is a bytecode interpreter whose job is to start executing the JavaScript with as little delay as possible.

Zroute Brings Multi-threaded Routing and Advanced DFM Optimizations to IC Compiler Users MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- May 27, 2008-- Synopsys, Inc., a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor ...