编制时间: 将源代码转换为机器码以使其成为可执行文件所花费的时间称为编译时间。

运行时间: 当应用程序正在运行时，它被称为运行时。

编译时错误是那些语法错误，缺少文件引用错误。 运行时错误发生在源代码被编译成可执行程序之后，并且程序正在运行时。例如程序崩溃、意外的程序行为或功能不工作。

编译时和运行时之间的差异就是精明的理论家所说的阶段差异的一个例子。它是最难学习的概念之一，特别是对于没有太多编程语言背景的人来说。要解决这个问题，我发现问一下很有帮助

程序满足哪些不变量? 在这个阶段会出现什么问题? 如果阶段成功，后置条件是什么(我们知道什么)? 输入和输出是什么(如果有的话)?

编译时

The program need not satisfy any invariants. In fact, it needn't be a well-formed program at all. You could feed this HTML to the compiler and watch it barf... What can go wrong at compile time: Syntax errors Typechecking errors (Rarely) compiler crashes If the compiler succeeds, what do we know? The program was well formed---a meaningful program in whatever language. It's possible to start running the program. (The program might fail immediately, but at least we can try.) What are the inputs and outputs? Input was the program being compiled, plus any header files, interfaces, libraries, or other voodoo that it needed to import in order to get compiled. Output is hopefully assembly code or relocatable object code or even an executable program. Or if something goes wrong, output is a bunch of error messages.

运行时

We know nothing about the program's invariants---they are whatever the programmer put in. Run-time invariants are rarely enforced by the compiler alone; it needs help from the programmer. What can go wrong are run-time errors: Division by zero Dereferencing a null pointer Running out of memory Also there can be errors that are detected by the program itself: Trying to open a file that isn't there Trying find a web page and discovering that an alleged URL is not well formed If run-time succeeds, the program finishes (or keeps going) without crashing. Inputs and outputs are entirely up to the programmer. Files, windows on the screen, network packets, jobs sent to the printer, you name it. If the program launches missiles, that's an output, and it happens only at run time :-)

基本上，如果你的编译器能在“编译时”找出你的意思或一个值是什么，它就能硬编码到运行时代码中。显然，如果你的运行时代码每次都要进行计算，那么它会运行得更慢，所以如果你能在编译时确定一些东西，那就更好了。

Eg.

常数合并:

如果我这样写:

int i = 2;
i += MY_CONSTANT;

编译器可以在编译时执行这个计算，因为它知道2是什么，MY_CONSTANT是什么。因此，每次执行时，它都不必执行计算。

这里是对“运行时和编译时的区别?”这个问题的回答的扩展。运行时和编译时开销的差异?

产品的运行时性能通过更快地交付结果来提高其质量。产品的编译时性能通过缩短编辑-编译-调试周期来提高其时效性。然而，运行时性能和编译时性能都是实现及时性质量的次要因素。因此，只有当整体产品质量和时效性得到改善时，才应该考虑运行时和编译时性能的改进。

这里有一个很好的进一步阅读的来源:

例如:在强类型语言中，类型可以在编译时或运行时检查。在编译时，这意味着如果类型不兼容，编译器将报错。在运行时，意味着你可以很好地编译你的程序，但在运行时，它会抛出一个异常。

编制时间:

在编译时执行的操作在最终程序运行时几乎不会产生任何开销，但在构建程序时可能会产生很大开销。

运行时:

或多或少完全相反。构建时成本小，运行程序时成本大。

从另一边;如果在编译时执行了某些操作，那么它只在您的机器上运行;如果在运行时执行了某些操作，那么它将在用户的机器上运行。

相关性

An example of where this is important would be a unit carrying type. A compile time version (like Boost.Units or my version in D) ends up being just as fast as solving the problem with native floating point code while a run-time version ends up having to pack around information about the units that a value are in and perform checks in them along side every operation. On the other hand, the compile time versions requiter that the units of the values be known at compile time and can't deal with the case where they come from run-time input.