On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> Sunday, March 17, 2002 Fabrice Popineau wrote:
>
> FP> On the other hand, the next version of the perl scripts will be
> FP> compiled with ActiveState's perl compiler, so you will get true
> FP> executables.
>
> Doesn't this increase their size?
Not significantly, and the increase in reliability is /so/ worthwhile
that it should outweigh the fairly insignificant size increase.
The Perl core is a shared library, also, which actually /reduces/ the
size of the in-memory image a little. :)
This was done at my last place-of-employ because we faced exactly the
sort of problems that giving runperl.exe and Perl scripts to customers
faces -- that Windows is utterly, totally awful at dealing with such
things.
Daniel
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