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I have to understand two japanese idioms and I am having a very hard time
finding a meaning for them (on a dictionary I mean). Can someone explain them
to me

  1. 机上 as in 「机上実行」 related to the execution of a program in _**not**_ the actual environment. I mean there are two modes of execution it seems. The first one (実機）and the second one (机上） So what is the translation of that?

  2. 松竹梅案の比較 what does that mean?
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Meaning of idioms difficult to translate
机上実行 is not a common phrase, but it probably refers to simulating each step of
a program in one's brain or using the code printed on paper (e.g., to find the
cause of a difficult logical bug, to check a software design). There is an
idiom
[机上の空論](https://jisho.org/search/%E6%9C%BA%E4%B8%8A%E3%81%AE%E7%A9%BA%E8%AB%96).
By extension, 机上【きじょう】 or 机の上 by itself sometimes carries a nuance of
"(optimistic) simulation/theory". A possible translation would be "brain
execution" or "paper simulation", but what it actually refers to should depend
on the context or your workplace.

[松竹梅【しょうちくばい】](https://jisho.org/search/%E6%9D%BE%E7%AB%B9%E6%A2%85) is a
traditional way of grading something (see
[this](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/33653/5010)). 松竹梅案 is a humorous
way of referring to three plans (案) with different prices or grades. 松(案) is
the deluxe plan, and 梅(案) is the cheapest.
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