runtime

Definition

Two senses. As a point in time it means while the program is executing, contrasted with compile time or, in ML, training time — a runtime error surfaces only when the code actually runs. As a component it means the layer that does the executing, as in ONNX Runtime; neither sense means elapsed duration, which is running time, and confusing the two is a common slip.

Explainers using this term

• Paper Walkthrough: LoopArena — Benchmarking the Model That Steers a Coding AgentLoopArena: Benchmarking Models as Runtime Controllers for Loop Engineering