Re: Perl 6 and byte code

At 12:00 PM +0100 10/27/04, 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?
Yeah, that's doable. Probably will be done.

> Other than code hiding would there be any performance benefits?
Given that the bytecode will probably have a segment with the 
original source in it, this isn't likely to get you much of a win 
there.
There should be a performance win, though. There won't be a need to 
compile the source, which saves some time. Bytecode files on-disk are 
shared across all the processes in the system, so you only get one 
in-memory copy of a file, which saves both RAM and load time if 
you're using a file that another process is using.
On single user or small machines this probably won't be a big win in 
most cases. It should, however, make a pretty big difference in 
server systems.
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