Editing Machine code (section)

==Relationship to bytecode==
Machine code is generally different from [[bytecode]] (also known as p-code), which is either executed by an interpreter or itself compiled into machine code for faster (direct) execution. An exception is when a processor is designed to use a particular bytecode directly as its machine code, such as is the case with [[Java processor]]s.

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