On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote:

> >What I understand from perl is that it compiles the source first then
> >executes everytime you run a perl srcipt (or program).
> 
> But Perl is still primarily interpreted language despite this, di ba?
> Kasi kayang ma-invoke ang Perl scripts on a shell (the #! is an
> interpreter directive... but hey, ganon din ang Python scripts na .py,
> di ba?).
> 
> Now that that is clear, how about Python? does it run on its own VM
> (o hindi? ano naman silbi ng intermediary p-code nya kung walang VM to
> run on unless ang goal ng python kasama rin portability ng p-code
> pero machine-dependent ang nilalabas ng interpreter?)
> 
.pyc files are machine independent.
pyc files are Python compiled scripts.
If you want to, you can also use JPython to come out with Java binaries.



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