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A relatively advanced use as instructions for a [[virtual machine]] processed by an interpreter {{endash}} similar to [[bytecode]] but usually with operations implied by the table structure itself.
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A table can be structured in a variety of ways. It may have one or multiple dimensions and be of fixed or [[variable length code |variable length]]. The structure of the table may be similar to a [[multimap (data structure)|multimap]] [[associative array]], where a data value (or combination of data values) may be mapped to one or more functions to be performed. Often, the structure allows tabular data is [[software portability |portable]] between [[computer platform]]s as long as a compatible interpreter exists on each platform.
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