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From: worley@compass.uucp (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: PERL compiler ?!?
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Date: 14 Nov 90 15:42:59 GMT
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   However, a means to save the compiled PERL program in a (sort of)
   executable file, and have PERL execute it, would be very handy. It
   eliminates the need for parsing, translating and compilation upon
   every invokation.

It seems to me that one solution that would be useful for many other
things also is a subsystem than can dump and reload arbitrary data
structures.  Ideally, you feed it the .h file that describes the data
structure, and it can write out and read in such structures.  This
would allow you to dump out the Perl internal form and reload it
later.

Dale Worley		Compass, Inc.			worley@compass.com
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