What is an interpreter?
An interpreter reads, translates, and executes source code line-by-line during runtime, without creating a separate executable file.
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A compiler is a software tool that translates the entire source code of a program into machine-level binary code before the program is executed.
C++ is fully compiled into optimized machine code before execution, whereas Python is interpreted on the fly, which adds overhead and slows execution.
Java is both. It is compiled into an intermediate 'Bytecode', which is then interpreted by the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) at runtime.
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