On a modern processor it is very hard (and inefficient) to write machine code by hand, typing in the raw numbers. So there is a slightly higher level language called assembly language which is a ...

The FFmpeg team recently announced a massive speed increase thanks to some newly patched code. The open-source project is now ...

Here’s what happens with a compiler: human-written code gets compiled into low-level machine code, creating a natively-executable result for a particular processor.

Source code compiled on one platform will not run on another - the machine code is specific to the processor's architecture. Interpreters.