machine code encoding
nounUK /məˈʃiːn kəʊd ɪnˈkəʊdɪŋ/
US /məˈʃiːn koʊd ɪnˈkoʊdɪŋ/
The way a computer turns instructions into tiny numbers it can understand.
The programmer used machine code encoding to make the program run faster.
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2. The process of converting assembly instructions into binary machine instructions.
The assembler handles machine code encoding for each line of assembly.
3. A specific format used to represent processor instructions as bits.
Different processors use different machine code encoding schemes.
4. The translation step that turns high-level code into executable binary.
After compilation, machine code encoding produces the final executable file.