Also known as pre-processor
In computer science, a preprocessor (or precompiler) is a program that processes its input data to produce output that is used as input in another program. The output is said to be a preprocessed form of the input data, which is often used by some subsequent programs like compilers. The amount and kind of processing done depends on the nature of the preprocessor; some preprocessors are only capable of performing relatively simple textual substitutions and macro expansions, while others have the power of full-fledged programming languages.
Un preprocesador es un programa separado que es invocado por el compilador antes de que comience la traducción real. Un preprocesador de este tipo puede eliminar los comentarios, incluir otros archivos y ejecutar sustituciones de macros. Los preprocesadores pueden ser requeridos por el lenguaje (como en C) o pueden ser agregados posteriores que proporcionen facilidades adicionales (como el preprocesador Ratfor para FORTRAN).
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).