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by vsnf 1195 days ago
Is that true? I think of C# and Java as compiled languages and they run on the CLR/JVM which are both virtual machines.
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sondr3 1195 days ago
It's just the nomenclature that I'm used to, compiled languages are so called because there is no VM, it's just machine code that is run while C# and Java still requires the JVM to do JIT compilation at runtime. But it's mostly splitting hairs, there is no agreed upon definition of what makes a languages compiled/interpreted.
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orthoxerox 1195 days ago
Both have JITs. So someone wrote a compiler from CIL/JVM bytecode into native code.
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