compiled
adjective
com·piled
kəm-ˈpī(-ə)ld
1
: gathered together especially from various sources
a compiled list/report
the compiled statistics from all three counties
… Freud was a prodigious writer. His compiled works amount to 23 volumes and cover thousands of pages of writing.—Kenneth N. Levy
… stored in countless precious libraries is the compiled wisdom of all the world.—The Harlequin
2
of computer code
: processed through software that translates a complete set of high-level computer instructions into machine language before executing any of them
Compiled code is incomprehensible to most programmers, but there are ways to convert machine code back to a more human-friendly format …—Mathew Schwartz
You will also notice more delays when going from function to function with the compiled program.—David Kruglinski
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