The usual understanding of "interpreter" in a CS context is program that executes source code directly without a compilation step. However the binary that tran

The usual understanding of "interpreter" in a CS context is program that executes source code directly without a compilation step. However the binary that translates an intermediate bytecode to native machine code is at least sometimes called a "bytecode interpreter". https://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/interpreter.html https://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/interpreter.html