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A program may be written in a language that is compiled to native' binary (to the instruction opcodes the actual CPU knows how to do), or it may be interpreted (translated to native binary statement by statement as the program runs.) Suppose part of a program initializes a 500,000- element array to all 0 (i.e., each of 500,000 elements is set to 0). A compiled version performs this action in 0.008 seconds; an interpreted version takes 0.608 seconds. Why is the compiled version so much faster