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'''Compile time''' refers to the compilation phase of the program life cycle. The actions undertaken at this stage are referred as ''compile-time'', ''static'', and sometimes as ''early''. The term ''static'' is used in order to stress that the properties provable at compile-time stay valid for the program as a whole, and thus do not depend on the program's dynamic execution state. The term ''early'' is used as an opposite to ''late''.

 

 

 

 

Examples of use: compile-time error detection, compile-time object, compile-time constant, static analysis, static typing, static expression, early binding.