It's inside the memory of the machine, which means we have access to it, we can change it, we can use it to build new pieces of code, as well as we can interpret it.

它在机器的存储器里面，就是说我们可以进入它，改变它，可以用它来编写新代码，当然也可以翻译它。

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Right? If that was the case in that code, then my complexity is no longer log, because I need linear access for each time I've got to go to the list, and it's going to Lisp be much worse than that.

这里的复杂度不再是对数的了，因为每次在列表中，查找需要线性访问,可能还要糟糕,其实，有些编程语言，如。

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