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Continuing the analogy, browser devs are just users playing in C/OS/kernel program.
by ivanjermakov 4mo ago
Continuing the analogy, browser devs are just users playing in C/OS/kernel program.
- Brian_K_White 4mo agoThat doesn't actually follow. A C++ compiler outputs machine code that runs on a raw cpu if you want it to. The os providing a virtual cpu is just an optional extra and so irrelevant. That is not true for someone writing php or js or anything that runs in an interpreter. C/OS/Kernel are not actually the interpreter for C++, or they are, but only in the same way that the bare hardware is. C++ is the final interpeter layer besides assembly.
- ivanjermakov 4mo agoMachine code is interpreted by CPU's microcode.