You might think this is a good idea, and that with increased flexibility governors can run the program more efficiently.

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It does exhaustive searches of all combinations of months in which you can take actions, but thanks to modern computing power and careful programming, our Maximize My Social Security program can run through millions upon millions of combinations of decisions incredibly fast.

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This program is then fed into a second piece of software called a compiler, which translates it into a sequence of machine instructions for a specific kind of microprocessor, such as Intel's x86 family, which can then run the original program.

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VM, in effect, simulates a computer within a computer, which can adapt any Java program to run on any computer.

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Some companies have taken issue with how this stock borrowing program is run, saying it can be used for manipulative purposes.

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