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runtime

nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: runtimes

Runtime is the period while a program is actually executing. A runtime error, at runtime, the runtime environment.

It is set against compile time, and the difference decides when a mistake is caught. A runtime error reaches the user, which is why languages that catch more before running are preferred for large systems.

Definitions of runtime

  1. 1nounruntimeThe period while a program is actually executing.C1

    “The fault only shows at runtime, never in the tests.”

runtime is a period.

Practised in Computing & Code

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runtime in the wild

  • The commercially supported Java releases available from Oracle are based on the OpenJDK runtime.

    Java virtual machine

  • During the transition from legacy.NET technologies like the.NET Framework and its proprietary runtime to the community-developed.NET Core, the CLR was dubbed CoreCLR.

    Common Language Runtime

  • An interpreted runtime environment differs from one that processes CPU-native executable code which requires translating source code before executing it.

    Interpreter (computing)

  • Early runtime environments for Lisp and BASIC could parse source code directly.

    Interpreter (computing)

  • For example, in a single computer system, this would be the computer's architecture, operating system (OS), and runtime libraries.

    Computing platform

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