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by monochromatic 3915 days ago
Eh, it isn't starting with source code.
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In the broadest sense a compiler is any program that translates between different representations af a program. In that sense one can also consider a decompiler as a compiler.

Also we usually use the term compilation (or more specifically Ahead Of Time and Just In Time compilation) for when we translate bytecode into machinecode.

Well, sure. I'm just saying that calling this something more specific than "compiler" isn't wrong.