Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:

>
> Then there's a kind of third category, where a language is actually
> compiled, but not to native machine code, but to a more hardware-independent
> "byte code", which is then "interpreted" by a runtime environment...[clip]
>
> Of course it can get even more complicated than this. The most advanced
> runtime environments will compile the "custom machine code" into actual
> machine code of the CPU on the fly, for speed.

This is what I understand Java to be (at least, the Windows Java Runtime
Environment.)

BTW, your entire post is a very informative summary of these topics; I haven't
seen it described so clearly and succinctly before. Much appreciated!

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