Explain the Compiler - Computer Programming?

The Compiler is a program that translates source code into object code. The compiler derives its name from the means it works looking at the whole piece of source code and collecting and reorganizing the instructions.

Consequently a compiler differs from an interpreter which analyzes and executes each line of source code in succession without looking at the whole program. The benefits of interpreters are that they can execute a program immediately. The Compilers require some time before an executable program emerges. Though, the programs produced by compilers run much faster than the same programs executed by an interpreter.