The “byte-code” is a special representation that is executed by Emacs VM. The Emacs VM is a simple stack-machine interpreter. This page collects informations for byte-code and Emacs VM. DocumentsThe byte-code is translated by the Emacs Lisp compiler. See the documentation for byte compiling: CompiledFile and Info (Elisp, Section 16, Byte Compilation). SpecsSee the emacs lisp and C sources for byte