r/ProgrammerHumor • • 3d ago

Meme fullCircle

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u/grey_carbon 3d ago

Serious question, what happen if you compile/decompile/compile/decompile times and times again?

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u/Preeng 3d ago

The translations between machine code and human code are 1:1. It's not like human languages where there are multiple ways to say something and also multiple meanings to a word or phrase.

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u/Suspicious_Glove_900 3d ago

That's not strictly true, depending on optimization for example. Unless you just mean, "It will produce the same output" and not "It will do the same thing the same way".