Purpose
The purpose of compiling Prolog code to the more low-level WAM code is to make subsequent interpretation of the Prolog program more efficient. Prolog code is reasonably easy to translate to WAM instructions which can be more efficiently interpreted. Also, subsequent code improvements and compilation to native code are often easier to perform on the more low-level representation.
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