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Mark Tony
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Javascript

  • Javascript is a versatile,high level programming language. It is used for creating an interactive and dynamic content on web page.
  • Javescript is a single-threated language that executes one task at a time.It is also interpreted language the executes the code line by line.
  • Javascript is dynamically typed language where type checking is done during runtime rather that at compile time.

Compiler:

Compiler converts the entire source code into machine code and saves it as a binary file.

Interpreter:

An interpreter is a computer program that executes instructions written in a high-level programming language directly, without requiring the entire program to be compiled into machine code beforehand. It processes code line-by-line or statement-by-statement.

JIT Compiler

  • JIT- Just-in-time compiler is used in Javascript which is a combination of Interpreter and compiler.

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