ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Static recompilation

Okay kiddo, let me try to explain static recompilation in a way that you can understand. Imagine you have a toy car that goes very fast, but it only goes straight. You want it to go around corners, but you can't change the design of the car. What do you do?

Well, static recompilation is like building a new track that the car can drive on. You take a look at the car and figure out how it works - how it moves, how it turns, how it speeds up and slows down. Then, you build a track that takes all of those things into account.

In computer terms, this means taking a program - like a game or an app - and analyzing how it works. Then, you create a new version of the program that has been "recompiled" to work better on a particular type of computer or operating system.

This is helpful because different computers and operating systems have different ways of working. Just like how the toy car can only go straight, some programs can only work on certain types of computers. By using static recompilation, we can make those programs work on different computers without having to change the original program itself.

So, static recompilation is like building a new track for a toy car, or making a program work on a different computer by creating a new version of the program. It's all about making things work better and more efficiently!