Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!bacchus.pa.dec.com!vixie From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: undump Message-ID: Date: 11 Aug 90 01:16:41 GMT References: <104716@convex.convex.com> <9064@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> Sender: news@wrl.dec.com (News) Organization: DEC Western Research Lab Lines: 25 In-Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV's message of 8 Aug 90 21:36:54 GMT [lwall] >> What would be way cool is if we could find a way to compile into an >> architecture independent format without much load-time penalty. Seems >> difficult, though, without extensive changes to the runtime system. Have we reached the point yet, with all the "require"'s and "#include"'s that most real programs need, where the overhead of compilation is a high enough component of startup time/work that it would make sense to have an option to "perl" that would tell it to generate a "byte-code" file that had a new #! line that referred to a byte-code interpreter? And wow, was that a long sentence, or what? % perl -o bleat bleat.pl % head -2 bleat.pl #!/usr/bin/perl while (@ARGV) { % head -2 bleat #!/usr/bin/smallperl hkjg876&*^khj&(^jhhkjh(*&^^&*(^ I guess I'm still thinking about sendmail-in-perl. -- Paul Vixie DEC Western Research Lab Palo Alto, California ...!decwrl!vixie