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I got the question in the interview.
I had a difficulty in answering it. I was not sure where I should start. Finally, I discussed how the question is related to compilers and to their construction.
I was not sure what ‘compilers’ integers’ mean exactly. It seems to me now that the word compiler was to confuse candidates.
How would you answer to the question in 5 minutes?
Five-minute version of my hardware architecture class:
Integers, as any other form of data, are copied from disk through the memory hierarchy up to the CPU registers where it can used as arguments to assembly instructions.
The result of assembly instructions eventually make their way back down the memory hierarchy to the RAM where they can be accessed by memory pointers.
The compiler is in charge of creating the assembly language which will efficiently manage the limited registers of the CPU.
In higher-level computer languages the assembly which manages these registers is usually completely transparent and abstracted using variables.