The word "compiler" is so overloaded that every time someone mentions one it turns into an argument. This is the whole transpiler vs compiler vs interpreter vs JIT argument. The trouble is that sometimes some programmers implement all of them (myself included).
> CLISP has its own virtual machine, which is the target of its compiler
> CLISP has its own virtual machine, which is the target of its compiler
Then CPython is also a compiler? and Lua?