compiler

CEFRC1

/kəmˈpaɪlə/

noun

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noun
A program that changes computer code into a form a computer can run.
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noun
Extra detail
A computer program that transforms source code into object code.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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The recommended Apple Objective-C compiler, Clang/LLVM (versions 4.2 and above) provides support for autosynthesis of declared properties. This means that the compiler will automatically synthesize declared properties […]

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Had I travelled the same route by train (the Trans-Siberian Express, say), it would have taken me a week to get there - enough time to notice that the clocks at all the stations along the way (as well as at all other stations in the totalitarian USSR) stubbornly stuck to Moscow Time. […] That bizarre arrangement, convenient for the compilers of train timetables but highly confusing for everyone else, was in force until the early 2000s, when railway stations across Russia finally adopted local times, like everywhere else in the world.
2025 November 12, Vitali Vitaliev, “Time travelling”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 68
As a result, many compilers automatically allocate blocks of memory and then parcel chunks out to programs with a suballocator when needed. That is, the compiler allocates a chunk of some 4,000 bytes and then parcels this memory out to you in bits and pieces when you need it.
1995, Charles Calvert, Teach Yourself Windows 95 Programming in 21 Days, page 1170
The recommended Apple Objective-C compiler, Clang/LLVM (versions 4.2 and above) provides support for autosynthesis of declared properties. This means that the compiler will automatically synthesize declared properties […]
2013, Keith Lee, Pro Objective-C, page 24

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From Middle English compilour, from Anglo-Norman compilour, from Old French compileur, from Latin compīlātōrem, equivalent to compile + -er.