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There are no compilers. There are translators and optimizers.


That's the definition of a compiler though, "A compiler is a computer program (or set of programs) that transforms source code written in a programming language (the source language) into another computer language (the target language)."

All a compiler is is a combination of a translator and (possibly - but not necessarily) an optimiser.




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