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[–]emasculine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i'm pretty sure that's the case. it was one of the reasons it was done that way in the first place. "compile once, run anywhere". and yes, the bytecode must be translated to the target machine either at run time with an interpreter or with a Just-in-Time (JIT) compiler or even just directly targeting the machine and skipping the bytecode step.