How to Use compiler in a Sentence
compiler
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Could the compiler not have made space for even one from south of the border?
—Ariel Dorfman, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
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The results are then compiled in a lookup table that the compiler uses to build the circuit.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Dec. 2023
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The compiler moves the data and the instructions into the right place at the right time so that there are no delays.
—Karl Freund, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
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For us, what this meant really was building a new compiler in Windows.
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 20 May 2024
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Aldin has spent six decades in radio and as a compiler or annotator of blues and folk reissue albums.
—Paul Grein, Billboard, 17 Mar. 2022
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Microsoft's compiler does work, and the code change is effective.
—Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2018
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Patches to enable this have already been contributed to the gcc compiler.
—Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2018
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The burden on the software (especially the compiler) is a heavy lift.
—Karl Freund, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
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Gannett had not run the list since Mary Cadden, the longtime compiler, was among hundreds laid off late last year.
—BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2023
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In some cases, programmers were resistant to these changes, fearing that programs like compilers might drive them out of work.
—WIRED, 17 Sep. 2023
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The compiler was the team’s sole focus for the first six months, and only after that did the team start working start on the chip architecture.
—Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
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Little is known about Flaming Research, the compilers of the report.
—Preetika Rana, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2018
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The videogame company is set to join the Nasdaq-100 index, the compiler of the benchmark said.
—WSJ, 13 Dec. 2023
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The compiler understands each instruction speed and instructs the hardware precisely what to do and when.
—Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
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Many investors remain on edge for whether regulators will be able to do enough to satisfy the index compiler’s demands.
—Prima Wirayani, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2026
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In case any Nadal or Federer fans want to fault him for being a mere compiler, Djokovic has a winning record against both of them.
—Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 11 June 2023
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Make no mistake, this isn’t LeBron turning into a late-career compiler.
—Chris Fedor, cleveland, 13 Oct. 2020
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Elliott has been the lead compiler at Sand Ridge for 10 years, but has decades more of experience counting birds.
—Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2023
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All you should be concerned with in the first few rounds of your draft is securing the services of as many stat compilers as possible, regardless of their position.
—Michael Beller, SI.com, 4 July 2018
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One of their members, Claire Moore, has been the count compiler for The Woodlands area count for several years.
—Jamie Swinnerton, Houston Chronicle, 5 Dec. 2019
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The album photo, which shows the dance floor, may have had to do with the place having been declared off-limits to service members, since its compiler, then-Maj.
—ExpressNews.com, 3 Oct. 2020
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The Cerebras compiler is turning machines that were the province of teams of scientists into something a grad student could program.
—Fortune, 19 Nov. 2019
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The index compiler added that the spread of the Omicron variant overseas has dampened demand for Chinese goods outside of the country.
—Laura He, CNN, 31 Jan. 2022
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Frances Allen, a computer scientist who became a pioneer in the world of computing for her work on compiler research, has died at 88.
—Aj Willingham, CNN, 10 Aug. 2020
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Right now, programming is going through the biggest transformation since compilers broke onto the scene in the early 1950s.
—Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2025
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Hang Seng Indexes, the city's leading index compiler, launched a Nasdaq-like technology index to track the largest tech firms that trade in the city.
—Laura He, CNN, 8 Dec. 2020
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The ecology is made up of the hardware, the operating system, the compiler, the applications, the numerical libraries, and so on.
—Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2010
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Following a few more years of work, the lexicographer—a studier or compiler of dictionaries—transferred his entire project online for anyone to peruse.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 19 Feb. 2026
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With compilers that can take advantage of the new instruction set, Intel has been telling us that AI workloads can easily double their throughput.
—Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 26 Nov. 2019
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One of Hopper’s most notable accomplishments was to aid the transition of programming to something more people-friendly, through the creation of the first compiler.
—Alyssa Shepard, Quartz, 16 July 2019
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