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From: amoss@SHUM.HUJI.AC.IL (Amos Shapira)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Compiled perl scripts?
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Date: 6 Mar 91 09:39:46 GMT
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Hello,
	What about perl compiling a script and dumping only the script in
	binary form to disk?

	I suppose I'm suggesting here the obvious, but I haven't seen any
	refference to this option on this list.

	The advantages of this over a simple dump is that you don't generate
	a copy of the interpreter for every script while you still save the
	startup overhead.

	Any other Pro's or Con's?

--Amos Shapira
C.S. System Group
Hebrew University
Jerusalem, Israel
amoss@shuldig.huji.ac.il