VietMX Staff asked 3 years ago
Before a computer can execute the source code, special programs called compilers must rewrite it into machine instructions, also known as object code. This process (commonly referred to simply as “compilation”) can be done explicitly or implicitly.
Implicit compilation is a two-step process:
- The first step is converting the source code to intermediate language (IL) by a language-specific compiler.
- The second step is converting the IL to machine instructions. The main difference with the explicit compilers is that only executed fragments of IL code are compiled into machine instructions, at runtime. The .NET framework calls this compiler the JIT (Just-In-Time) compiler.
