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Interpreter

The interpreter is the implementation of the stack-based bytecode machine that is defined in the JVM specification. Each bytecode affects the state of the machine and, as a whole, the bytecodes define the logic of the application.

The interpreter executes bytecodes on the operand stack, calls native functions, contains and defines the interface to the JIT compiler, and provides support for intrinsic operations such as arithmetic and the creation of new instances of Java™ classes.

The interpreter is designed to execute bytecodes very efficiently. It can switch between running bytecodes and handing control to the platform-specific machine-code produced by the JIT compiler. The JIT compiler is described in The JIT compiler.

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