Re^2: High Performance Perl


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Re^2: High Performance Perl

by Juerd (Abbot)

on May 24, 2005 at 17:50 UTC ( [id://460105]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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Perl's current implementation doesn't really have bytecode, at least not in the sense that Java or Python does.

Hmmm. Then what do B::Bytecode and ByteLoader do?

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Re^3: High Performance Perl
by hardburn (Abbot) on May 24, 2005 at 18:12 UTC

Take the tree Perl normally uses, make it into bytecode, and then load it back into a tree for Perl to use later. They don't have anything to do with how Perl runs the program internally. Notice that it doesn't work very well for any non-trivial code, and you aren't gaining anything except shaving off the compile-time.

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