Interpreter vs Compiler
So yeah, we are discussing Computers of course just in case "Interpreters and Compilers" are in another field.
Allow me to paint in your imaginative mind.
Imagine Vladimir Putin, the current Russian President, was giving a speech about the war and then the American citizens who are mainly English-speaking people wanted to hear his speech. Now there is a language barrier and we need someone to translate for us.
There are two types of translators humans. The Interpreter Humans and the Compiler Humans.
An Interpreter Human is simply a person that translates to English after each sentence of Vladimir Putin's speech while a Compiler Human is simply a person that waits for Vladimir Putin to complete his speech and then translates everything all together. Now how do you know which translator is preferable? First of all, you have to ask the right questions, "What if I want to listen to Putin's speech again?", "If Putin mispronounces a Russian word how soon would we be able to notice it for correction?"
"If Putin mispronounces a word"
In Interpreters the mistake would be detected as soon as Putin completes a sentence while in Compilers the mistakes would be detected after the speech when he/she decides to start translating.
In the case of re-listening to the speech.
In Interpreters, you would have to get an interpreter to listen again and start translating again which means consuming the processed information would take a while but in compilers, you already have a translated file and can immediately consume the information
This also shows that in the case of compilers, there is a standalone translated speech I could easily share with English listeners but in Interpreters, translation has to be done in real life or real-time. Since compilers have an already translated speech the speech might have been optimized for easier listening during the compilation
Interpreters' mistakes could be corrected in real life by interrupting but this can not happen in the case of compilers which translates to "Interpreters provide easier debugging and a more interactive development process, whereas debugging compiled code can be more complex."
For more technical reading kindly check out "https://www.simplilearn.com/difference-between-compiler-and-interpreter-article#:~:text=A%20compiler%20translates%20the%20entire,potentially%20slowing%20down%20the%20program."
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