Main Takeaway: When you first learned to write code, you probably realized that computers don't really have any common sense. Looking at the 4 stages of compilation: lexical analysis, syntax analysis, code generation, and optimisation.

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When you first learned to write code, you probably realized that computers don't really have any common sense. Looking at the 4 stages of compilation: lexical analysis, syntax analysis, code generation, and optimisation. Get Rust training from Let's Get Rusty: If you like my work and want to see more, you ...

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  • When you first learned to write code, you probably realized that computers don't really have any common sense.
  • Looking at the 4 stages of compilation: lexical analysis, syntax analysis, code generation, and optimisation.
  • Get Rust training from Let's Get Rusty: If you like my work and want to see more, you ...
  • MIT 6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Fall 2018 Instructor: Tao B.
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