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In [[computer science]], '''threaded code''' is a programming technique where the code has a form that essentially consists entirely of calls to [[subroutine]]s. It is often used in [[compiler]]s, which may generate code in that form or be implemented in that form themselves. The code may be processed by an [[interpreter (computing)|interpreter]] or it may simply be a sequence of [[machine code]] [[subroutine call|call]] instructions.