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Most Java-to-bytecode compilers, [[Jikes]] being a well known exception, do virtually no [[Optimization (computer science)|optimization]], leaving this until [[Run time (program lifecycle phase)|run time]] to be done by the [[JRE]]{{Citation needed|date=April 2007}}.
 
The [[Java Virtualvirtual Machinemachine]] (JVM) loads the class files and either [[interpreter (computing)|interprets]] the [[bytecode]] or [[just-in-time compilation|just-in-time]] compiles it to [[machine code]] and then possibly optimizes it using [[dynamic compilation]].
 
A standard on how to interact with Java compilers programmatically was specified in [[Java Community Process|JSR]] 199.