Definition of "bytecode" [bytecode]

• P-code (various forms of instruction sets designed for efficient execution by a software interpreter as well as being suitable for further compilation into machine code) (noun)

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• "Apps written for Android are "compiled" into bytecode, which is NOT native machine code."
• "A note on JVM vs. JRE: the JVM actually executes Java bytecode, which is what every compiled JVM language ends up as."
• "The software is running a full version 1.6 Java virtual machine (JVM), the Java software component that actually runs Java programs once they're converted into an intermediate form called bytecode, Gibbs said."