[thelist] Compile Perl

Eric Cestari eric at ohmforce.com
Wed Jun 6 09:26:24 CDT 2001


Moreover, as it embeds the interpreter into the exe, the total executable
file is at least 800kb.
I noticed it using perl2c on Solaris.
Might not be an issue though :)

Cheers,
    Eric
----- Original Message -----
From: dwayne <dwayne at mentia.com>

> i'm curious about this...my understanding is that, as you've got the
> interpreter built into the executable, you would get only a minimal speed
> increase. you're still loading the interpreter, and the efficiency of the
> script itself shouldn't be much greater unless they're doing some serious
> magic when it's compiled. i would have thought the only time saver on this
> would be the actual compilation time of the script, or am i missing
something?






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