Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!stl!robobar!ronald From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: PERL compiler ?!? Message-ID: <1990Nov14.105212.11777@robobar.co.uk> Date: 14 Nov 90 10:52:12 GMT References: <1990Nov13.100359.1846@squirrel.mh.nl> Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND. Lines: 20 Johan Vromans writes: > No, I do not consider undumping a good alternative > for this, since it produces huge binaries and it makes it impossible > to execute existing binaries with a new interpreter. Also, on machines with slow hard discs like PCs, loading the undumped binary takes so long that it's actually *slower* than recompiling each time (partly because you tend to get all of the CPU to yourself on PCs :-) so the benefit of undump goes real negative :-) (Yes, I tried it :-) No, not on an MS-DOS PC, before you ask. It was Xenix) > Somehow it must be possible to save the internal code of a compiled > program in a (possibly) system (and PERL?) independent format. This would be very nice. Yes please. :-) Then we can rewrite all of /usr/bin and /bin in perl, and save a *lot* of disc space. -- ronald@robobar.co.uk +44 81 991 1142 (O) +44 71 229 7741 (H)