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Line 1: A '''Java compiler''' is a [[compiler]] for the [[Java (programming language)\|Java programming language]]. The most common form of output from a Java compiler isare [[Class (file format)\|Java class files]] containing platform-neutral [[Java bytecode]]. There exist also compilers emitting optimized [[Machine code\|native machine code]] for a particular hardware/[[Operating system]] combination. Most Java-to-bytecode compilers, [[Jikes]] being a well known exception, do virtually no [[Optimization (computer science)\|optimization]], leaving this until [[runtime]] to be done by the [[JRE]]{{Fact\|date=April 2007}}.

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