Prebinding

Prebinding refers to the process of getting things ready before we actually use them. Imagine your mom making your lunch for school each morning. She gathers all the ingredients and packs it up in the lunchbox, so that when you're ready to head off to school, it's all ready for you to eat. That's a kind of prebinding!

In the tech world, prebinding refers to getting all the pieces of an app, like its code and other resources, ready to use before it's launched. Just like how your mom gathers all the lunch ingredients before packing your lunchbox, prebinding helps an app run faster by making sure everything it needs is already organized and ready to go.

When an app launches, it needs to call up lots of different pieces of code and resources. If those things aren't organized and prebound, the app will take longer to launch and run slower overall. Think of it like a messy backpack: if you have to dig through all your stuff to find your pencil, it'll take longer than if you have everything organized and easy to find.

By prebinding, an app loads more quickly and users can start using it sooner. This is especially important for larger and more complex apps that might need to load a lot of stuff. Just like how your mom packs your lunch the night before so you don't have to worry about it in the morning, prebinding gets an app ready to go so you don't have to wait for it to load when you want to use it!