A good answer might be:

No. Programs should get their work done in a timely fashion, but often moderately slow is fast enough. For example, the Web browser you are using mostly does nothing as it waits for your commands. It would be only a slight improvement to make it run much faster.

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• Machine operations and machine instructions.
• Executing a program.
• Differences in types of processor chips.
• High level programing language.
• Source program.
• Program translation.
• Program interpretation.
• Portability.

The next chapter will discuss how the language Java fits into the concepts this chapter has discussed.