Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!netxcom!elw From: elw@netx.com (Edwin Wiles) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: PERL compiler ?!? Summary: A slightly different bent. Message-ID: <9412@netxcom.DHL.COM> Date: 12 Nov 90 14:56:56 GMT References: Sender: news@netxcom.DHL.COM Organization: NetExpress Inc., Vienna, VA, USA Lines: 21 In article mitch@hq.af.mil (Mitch Wright) writes: >Has anyone ever considered writing a PERL compiler?? Yes, I know PERL >compiles it's self (sort of) and you can dump core and then undump it >into an executable. I was thinking more of something on the lines of >a C-compiler -- maybe as some sort of front end to gcc ?? Just wondering. I won't "boo" it, but I would ask for something different. With particularly large PERL scripts, the compilation can take some time. I'd like a way to reload the dumped file into PERL for execution, thus avoiding the compilation time. (Assuming that the reload would take less time than the recompilation.) It should also be simplier to implement than either a translation of the dumped file into an executable, or the translation of the PERL code into C code. Enjoy! -- Prefered.: elw@netx.com Edwin Wiles Alternate: ...!grebyn!netex!elw NetExpress Inc., Suite 300, Who? Me?!? Responsible!?! Surely You Jest! Vienna, VA, USA 22182