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p-code (an abbreviation for packed code[1]) is a name for several of Microsoft's proprietary intermediate languages. They provided an alternate binary format to machine code.

Microsoft p-code was used in Microsoft Visual C++ and Microsoft Visual Basic. Like other p-code implementations, Microsoft p-code enabled a more compact executable at the expense of slower execution.

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  1. ^ http://web.archive.org/web/20010222035711/http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/backgrnd/html/msdn_c7pcode2.htm
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