Re^4: Perl 6... do we need another vm?

[adrianh]

That's a comforting thought, and I suspect you're right, but there's still no substitute for running directly from source code.

You seem to think that it's going to be a common occurrence for the byte code to be shipped separately from the source. Personally I doubt that will happen much.

[apotheon]

Why do you doubt that? I'm curious. I, for one, don't see any reason to doubt that people will be shipping Perl programs in bytecode form without source code.

Of course CPAN modules will (I would think) be universally available as source code, but there are many other ways to distribute software besides CPAN.

[adrianh]

Why do you doubt that?

Because I think that the vast majority of Perl code that gets distributed in the Perl world is going to be open source - which doesn't work without that whole "source" thang :-)

[apotheon]

How often do you download the source and compile your kernel yourself? I know some people do it all the time. I don't, and neither do most of the rest of the Linux users out there. I use apt-get to install a new kernel binary. I do the same with basically all the rest of the software I install.