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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Suggested new feature for perl
Message-ID: <7440@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 88 19:18:56 GMT
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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Now that I have perl running on ncoast (!@#$%&* compiler bugs!  It may get
tossed in favor of gcc as soon as *that* leaves beta testing!)  I have only
one complaint:  compiling a perl script usually takes longer than running it.
I would like to suggest, therefore, that a "compile mode" be added to perl
which saves the compiled program to a file, and that such saved files be loaded
directly for speed.  I haven't looked at it, so I hope it isn't like awk's
vaunted compile mode (write everything from &end to sbrk(0) to a file) that
this would have to be done.

Larry -- how much of a problem would this be?  (And did you get my bugfix?
You forgot to trap divide-by-zero, which is rather hard to debug in floating
point on ncoast.)
-- 
	      Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc
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