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<p><b>Bytecode</b> (also called <b>portable code</b> or <b>p-code</b>) is an <a href="page.php?w=instruction_set">instruction set</a> designed for efficient execution by a software <a href="page.php?w=interpreter_%28computing%29">interpreter</a>. Unlike <a href="page.php?w=Human-readable_code">human-readable</a> <a href="page.php?w=source_code">source code</a>, bytecodes are compact numeric codes, constants, and references (normally numeric addresses) that encode the result of <a href="page.php?w=compiler">compiler</a> parsing and performing <a href="page.php?w=Semantic_analysis_%28compilers%29">semantic analysis</a></p><p>
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