Re: Perl 6 and byte code

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 12:00:33PM +0100, Peter Hickman wrote:
> Presently Python compiles it's py files to pyc files that can then be 
> run without access to the source (the py).
> 
> Would Perl 6 be able to do this? Compile the pl to plc and pm to pmc and 
> load the ??c version if it was available and newer than the
> source?

I suppose that means implementing for perl6 the equivalent of
ccache. I doubt that, in general, the preferred form of a dynamic
programming language is the bytecode one.

> 
> Other than code hiding would there be any performance benefits?
> 

There is the age old debate about the dubious benefits of source
code hiding.

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  stef