compiler
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com·pil·er
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This early compiler helped inspire Fortran, which in turn spawned most major computer programming languages used today. — Stephen Witt, WIRED, "Apollo 11: Mission Out of Control," 24 June 2019 Reports that President Donald Trump wanted to hit Amazon pushed its shares down 4.4%, and that was great news for its competitors (Amazon is defined as a retailer by index compilers). — James Mackintosh, WSJ, "Tech Selloff Points to a Likely Reckoning for Global Stock Rally," 29 Mar. 2018 The halt comes days after MSCI Inc., the index compiler, moved to add more companies listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen to its influential benchmarks, giving shares from these two markets more weight in those gauges. — Joanne Chiu, WSJ, "China Hits Off Switch on Laser Stock Beloved by Foreigners," 6 Mar. 2019 Trump’s statement illustrates a vulnerability all wealth list compilers face. — Jonathan Greenberg, Town & Country, "How to Get a Spot Among the Billionaires on the Forbes 400 List," 15 Jan. 2019 Qualcomm also released an LLVM compiler and has begun working with enterprises to port their apps. — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, "Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8cx for PCs aims to overcome the performance gap," 6 Dec. 2018 There's also a huge binary blob—a Windows .NET compiler—which the malware uses to compile a dynamic-link library version of the PingCastle network scanning tool for locating potentially vulnerable targets elsewhere on the network. — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, "Unpatched systems at big companies continue to fall to WannaMine worm," 14 Sep. 2018 Little is known about Flaming Research, the compilers of the report. — Preetika Rana, WSJ, "GenScript Shares Drop on Report Alleging Safety Violations by Unit Partnered With Johnson & Johnson," 27 Sep. 2018 The contributions made by the Microsoft developers are addressing these various issues—adding ARM64 build targets, specifying the right compilers and Windows SDK versions, providing alternatives to x86-specific code, and so on. — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, "Microsoft joining Qualcomm and Google to bring Chrome to Windows on ARM," 21 Nov. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'compiler.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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