Computer Science GCSE
Portability across platforms
What Portability across platforms means in Computer Science GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Portability across platforms
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Reference: OCR
High-level languages are generally portable because a translator or virtual machine adapts the same source code to different hardware.
Topics that use Portability across platforms
- Languages (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- Compiler
- Error reporting and debugging
- Execution speed versus development speed
- Hardware control and performance
- Human readability and maintainability
- Interpreter
- Translator
- Abstraction from hardware
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