Answer:
No. Programs should get their work done in a timely fashion, but often moderately slow is fast enough. For example, the Web browser you are using mostly does nothing as it waits for your commands. It would be only a slight improvement to make it run much faster.
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- Machine operations and machine instructions.
- Executing a program.
- Differences in types of processor chips.
- High level programing language.
- Source program.
- Program translation.
- Program interpretation.
- Portability.
The next chapter will discuss how the language Java fits into the concepts this chapter has discussed.
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