On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 20:41:50 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 09:30:55AM +0800, m.w.chang wrote: > > > > Perl is not compiled, isn't it. it's interpreted, may be optimized by > > first being converted into p-code. It's more like Foxpro than C. > > True. It's compiled to some sort of byte-code before the code > is executed.
Similiar to Tcl (plug again) which compiles procedures when they are read, and then executes the bytecode each time they are executed. So things are compiled only once. I would imagine that any modern true scripting language does a similiar thing. Tcl even allows you (I don't really know why) to save and reuse the bytecodes. A determined (possibly not sane) developer could deliver a Tcl app as a pre-compiled bytecode stream. -- +============================+===============================+ | Roger Oberholtzer | E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | OPQ Systems AB | WWW: http://www.opq.se/ | | Erik Dahlbergsgatan 41-43 | Phone: Int + 46 8 314223 | | 115 32 Stockholm | Mobile: Int + 46 733 621657 | | Sweden | Fax: Int + 46 8 302602 | +============================+===============================+ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
