The document discusses the application lifecycle and compilation process. It notes that compilation occurs in two steps: (1) at compile time, languages like C#, C++ are compiled to a Common Intermediate Language (CIL); (2) at runtime, a Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler compiles the CIL to native machine code for the device. This two step process allows code to run on different processors. The CIL serves as a common language that is then compiled to the specific machine language.