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Portable

A portable program is one which may be used on multiple architectures or operating systems.

Related terms:

  • Port - to modify a program to work on a particular architecture.
  • Portable - a program which can be used on multiple architectures, typically by compiling/building for a specific target architecture. Note that portable does not necessarily mean able to be ported – it is often used to mean code which does not need to be ported, because it is architecture-neutral (i.e., contains no assembler, word size assumptions, or other architecture-specific code, and can be compiled (or interpreted) from a high-level language on a wide range of architecture types).
  • Architecture-specific - code which is usable only on one or more specific architectures (this is the opposite of portable).
  • Non-portable - synonym for architecture-specific (often extremely so!)
  • Cross-platform - Code which will execute either on multiple architectures or on multiple operating systems.
spo600/portable.txt · Last modified: 2024/04/16 18:10 by 127.0.0.1

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