What is “runtime”?

Question

I have heard about things like \"C Runtime\", \"Visual C++ 2008 Runtime\", \".NET Common Language Runtime\", etc.

• What is \"runtime\" exactly?

Answer 1

Run time is the instance where you don't know about of what type of objects creates during its execution, objects creation are based on certain condition or some computation work. In contradict, compile time is the instance where required objects are defined by you before its executions.