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Java and many other programming languages have taken the approach of executing on a virtual machine, as opposed to compiling to native machine code. Explain one advantage and one disadvantage of the virtual machine approach.

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An advantage of a virtual machine is that any software developed in Java can be run on any platform or operating system. It only needs to be interpreted once and ...

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