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compile-time

compile-time adjective: operations performed by a compiler (the “compile-time operations”).

Adjective

compile-time (not comparable)

  1. Operations performed by a compiler (the “compile-time operations”).
  2. Programming language requirements that must be met by source code for it to be successfully compiled (the “compile-time requirements”).
  3. Properties of the program that can be reasoned about during compilation.

Antonyms of compile-time

Questions about compile-time

What does compile-time mean?
Compile-time means operations performed by a compiler (the “compile-time operations”).
What part of speech is compile-time?
Compile-time is an adjective.

Words near compile-time in the dictionary

  1. compilatory
  2. compile
  3. compile time
  4. compile times
  5. compile-and-go
  6. compile-time
  7. compiled
  8. compilement
  9. compilements
  10. compiler
  11. compilers

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