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Digital Literacy Computer Basics Computer Languages Fundamentals of Computer Languages

Posted by Savannah Yost
Savannah Yost
102 Points

What is a memory footprint? How fast can machine code run?

I thought that the smaller the memory footprint the quicker the machine code runs.

1 Answer

Josh Bruce
Josh Bruce
15,429 Points

Hey Savannah,

Memory footprint basically means the amount of memory a program takes up when it is being executed, and machine code runs incredibly quickly, since it is the lowest level programming language.

So you are definitely correct in thinking it has a smaller memory footprint and it does run quickly.

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