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3,463 PointsDoes Machine code has a much smaller memory footprint? why
I cant anderstand why I had question number 2 wrong
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Isaiah Boutz
1,825 PointsIn machine code, there is no converting commands to something the computer can work with. You just give the computer exactly what it needs. With higher level languages, the computer has to convert the commands to machine code, which requires extra memory.
foxtails
3,655 Pointsfoxtails
3,655 Pointsbecause machine code uses combination of just two characters/number 0 and 1 (binary code) while developers use all sorts of commands.