How to Use compiler in a Sentence

compiler

noun
  • Could the compiler not have made space for even one from south of the border?
    Ariel Dorfman, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The compiler moves the data and the instructions into the right place at the right time so that there are no delays.
    Karl Freund, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • One of their members, Claire Moore, has been the count compiler for The Woodlands area count for several years.
    Jamie Swinnerton, Houston Chronicle, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Gannett had not run the list since Mary Cadden, the longtime compiler, was among hundreds laid off late last year.
    BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2023
  • The compiler was the team’s sole focus for the first six months, and only after that did the team start working start on the chip architecture.
    Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The burden on the software (especially the compiler) is a heavy lift.
    Karl Freund, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • In case any Nadal or Federer fans want to fault him for being a mere compiler, Djokovic has a winning record against both of them.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 11 June 2023
  • Little is known about Flaming Research, the compilers of the report.
    Preetika Rana, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2018
  • Elliott has been the lead compiler at Sand Ridge for 10 years, but has decades more of experience counting birds.
    Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2023
  • The album photo, which shows the dance floor, may have had to do with the place having been declared off-limits to service members, since its compiler, then-Maj.
    ExpressNews.com, 3 Oct. 2020
  • Aldin has spent six decades in radio and as a compiler or annotator of blues and folk reissue albums.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The index compiler added that the spread of the Omicron variant overseas has dampened demand for Chinese goods outside of the country.
    Laura He, CNN, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Patches to enable this have already been contributed to the gcc compiler.
    Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2018
  • Microsoft's compiler does work, and the code change is effective.
    Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Hang Seng Indexes, the city's leading index compiler, launched a Nasdaq-like technology index to track the largest tech firms that trade in the city.
    Laura He, CNN, 8 Dec. 2020
  • There is no abstraction between the compiler and GroqChip.
    Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
  • In some cases, programmers were resistant to these changes, fearing that programs like compilers might drive them out of work.
    WIRED, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The compiler understands each instruction speed and instructs the hardware precisely what to do and when.
    Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
  • All you should be concerned with in the first few rounds of your draft is securing the services of as many stat compilers as possible, regardless of their position.
    Michael Beller, SI.com, 4 July 2018
  • The vulnerability resides in the just-in-time compiler of IE’s JavaScript engine.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 12 Aug. 2020
  • These features should, in principle, make Rust programs much more robust: the compiler itself prevents many of the bugs that might otherwise occur in C .
    Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2017
  • The Cerebras compiler is turning machines that were the province of teams of scientists into something a grad student could program.
    Fortune, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Frances Allen, a computer scientist who became a pioneer in the world of computing for her work on compiler research, has died at 88.
    Aj Willingham, CNN, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Make no mistake, this isn’t LeBron turning into a late-career compiler.
    Chris Fedor, cleveland, 13 Oct. 2020
  • The ecology is made up of the hardware, the operating system, the compiler, the applications, the numerical libraries, and so on.
    Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2010
  • One of Hopper’s most notable accomplishments was to aid the transition of programming to something more people-friendly, through the creation of the first compiler.
    Alyssa Shepard, Quartz, 16 July 2019
  • In theory, any data processed by the JIT compiler could be vulnerable to the attack; researchers simply used a photo as a proof of concept.
    Shannon Liao, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2018
  • With compilers that can take advantage of the new instruction set, Intel has been telling us that AI workloads can easily double their throughput.
    Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Sabic shares have increased 18% this year amid an overall uptick in the Saudi market, which has seen billions of dollars of foreign cash flow in ahead of its inclusion into a global stock index compiler.
    Rory Jones, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2018
  • Iridium is almost eight times rarer than gold in the Earth’s crust, according to data compiler Wolfram Alpha.
    Eddie Van Der Walt, Bloomberg.com, 13 July 2017

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