This build isn't code-signed yet, so the first run will probably show SmartScreen's "Windows protected your PC".
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I don’t know what to say other than your description doesn’t match the opening paragraphs on Wikipedia (which I linked earlier), which AFAIK match the common meaning of the terms. The existence of cross-compilation really muddies the water here, so to clarify, in this context when I’m talking about compilation I’m talking about compiling to machine code that can run natively on the hardware in question (CPU or GPU). Compiling to anything else (bytecode, different programming language, whatever) is irrelevant for the discussion IMO.
And interpreters do not compile to machine code. If they do, it’s called JIT compilation, not interpretation.
I don’t know what to say other than your description doesn’t match the opening paragraphs on Wikipedia (which I linked earlier), which AFAIK match the common meaning of the terms. The existence of cross-compilation really muddies the water here, so to clarify, in this context when I’m talking about compilation I’m talking about compiling to machine code that can run natively on the hardware in question (CPU or GPU). Compiling to anything else (bytecode, different programming language, whatever) is irrelevant for the discussion IMO.
And interpreters do not compile to machine code. If they do, it’s called JIT compilation, not interpretation.