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This article is a rough explanation of Runtime.

Everything might be not exactly correct in this article but it’s beneficial for beginners to understand IT terms. If you want to learn IT but you don’t have any experience of working in the IT industry, I hope it helps you to understand IT. And I hope that this article motivates you to study IT more.

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What is Runtime?

Runtime is the phase of executing the program, or it is the component to run the program.

Runtime is the running phase of a program.
It is the final phase of a computer program’s life cycle.
Runtime is something necessary to execute the program.

1. Runtime | Runtime = Run Time

Let’s imagine the word meaning, Runtime can be split into Run and Time. It means that it is the time when the program runs. In other words, it is the time when the program is executed.

But engineers don’t often use this word as the time to execute. They use this word as something necessary to execute the program.

There is the word, “Runtime library”, or we also call this “Runtime module” and “Runtime package”.

Anyway,