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Interpreter

An interpreter translates and executes code line-by-line, making debugging easy but slowing overall execution, while a compiler scans and translates the entire program at once into machine code, speeding up execution but making debugging harder since errors aren't found until scanning is complete. Compilers also generate intermediate object code requiring more memory than interpreters.

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Interpreter

An interpreter translates and executes code line-by-line, making debugging easy but slowing overall execution, while a compiler scans and translates the entire program at once into machine code, speeding up execution but making debugging harder since errors aren't found until scanning is complete. Compilers also generate intermediate object code requiring more memory than interpreters.

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Interpreter Compiler

Scans the entire program and


Translates program one statement at
translates it as a whole into machine
a time.
code.

It takes large amount of time to


It takes less amount of time to
analyze the source code but the
analyze the source code but the
overall execution time is
overall execution time is slower.
comparatively faster.

No intermediate object code is Generates intermediate object code


generated, hence are memory which further requires linking, hence
efficient. requires more memory.

Continues translating the program It generates the error message only


until the first error is met, in which after scanning the whole program.
case it stops. Hence debugging is Hence debugging is comparatively
easy. hard.

Programming language like C, C++


Programming language like Python,
Ruby use interpreters.
use compilers.
The difference between an interpreter and a compiler is given below:

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