A data structure used internally by a compiler to represent a program between its source-language form and its final machine-code form, chosen to be easy to analyze and transform independently of both the source language and the target hardware.
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Core PrincipleThe source code of a program is translated into a form more suitable for code-improving transformations before being used to generate object or machine code for a target machine. 1 Connections
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1. Intermediate representation - Wikipedia
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The term comes from their use in compilers, where the source code of a program is translated into a form more suitable for code-improving transformations before being used to generate object or machine code for a target machine.
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