(Computer Science) Compile, to compile

Compiling refers to the act of turning human-readable source code into machine-readable binary code.
Compiling includes in itself various phases. These can be stated as below

Lexical Analysis

Syntax Analysis

Semantic Analysis

Code Generation

Code Optimization

Lexical Analysis just deals with extracting tokens or words from the source code and passing on to the Syntax Analysis. Syntax Analyzer analyzes the sequence of tokens and checks whether it matches with any of the grammar for the syntax of the compiler programming language. Semantic Analysis checks for errors which cannot be detected by grammars. Then code is generated (in assembly or directly in the form of m/c code) by the Code Generation. Finally the code can be optimized for space or time by the Code Optimization.

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