US Patent 10120661 Multi-flavored software execution from a singular code base

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for multi-flavored software execution from a singular code base. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for multi-flavored software execution from a singular code base is provided. The method includes receiving a request in an interpreter to interpret a version of source code of a computer program the interpreting transforming the source code into byte code executable by a virtual machine. The method thereafter includes responding to the request by performing in the interpreter source code interpretation only of selected portions of the source code being annotated by tags corresponding to the version.