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.

End of the Chapter!

You may wish to review the following. Click on a subject that interests you to go to where it was discussed.

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.

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