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The table entries can also optionally contain counters to collect run-time statistics for 'in-flight' or later optimization

==Table ___locationStorage==

ControlA tablescontrol table can residebe instored a variety of ways. It can be stored as part of a program; for example as as a [[static variables|staticvariable]]. storage,It oncan stored in the [[auxiliaryfile storagesystem]],; suchfor example as a [[flat file]] or onin a [[database]]. orIt may alternativelycan be partially or entirely built dynamically atby programthe [[booting|initialization]] time from parameters (which themselves may reside in a table)program. For optimum efficiency, the table should be memory resident in program memory when the interpreter begins to useuses it.

==The interpreter and subroutines==