Portable Glossary

Browse 2 portable terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

2 Portable Terms

Bytecode

An intermediate binary format designed for efficient execution by a virtual machine rather than a physical CPU. More compact and faster to interpret than...

WASI

WebAssembly System Interface — a standardized API for WebAssembly modules to interact with the operating system (files, network, clocks, random numbers) in a...

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• Runtime (2 terms in common)
• Compiler (1 terms in common)
• Webassembly (1 terms in common)