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What is bytecode?

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The correct answer is B) A compact, portable intermediate representation executed by a virtual machine, between source code and machine code

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A compact, portable intermediate representation executed by a virtual machine, between source code and machine code

Explanation

Java bytecode (.class files), Python bytecode (.pyc), .NET CIL are examples. Platform-independent: the VM interprets/JIT-compiles bytecode for each architecture. More portable than native code.

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