What do you mean by compiling?
As a programmer, you will immediately assign the term “compiling” to the process of building a program or application from the source code. Although the complete building process comprises additional phases, such as generating assembly code and linking it to libraries and other objects, it is reasonable to think that way. However, at first glance, it may be a bit confusing to think about the compiling process in the context of this book since we are talking about Python. After all, Python is not a compiled language; it is an interpreted language, and thus, no compiling is involved.
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It is important to clarify that Python uses compiled functions for performance purposes, though it is primarily an interpreted language.
That said, what is the meaning of compiling a model? Before answering this question, we must understand the two execution modes of machine learning frameworks. Follow me to the next section.
