The ActiveState Perl Developer's Kit for Windows can take a perl script and turn it into an executable file. But it doesn't really compile it. It just packages the minimum files needed for your script to run an compresses them. The .exe file expands the files and runs the perl script as a script. You have the same slowness issues you have with a regular perl script.
-Jason -----Original Message----- From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 12:35 PM To: Debian-User Subject: Re: COBOL compiler On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 06:41, Pigeon wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 07:53:34PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 19:35, Britton wrote: > > > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:25:55AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > [snip] [snip] > > > > You might want to try Python as a prototyping, and even implementation, > > language. It has many graphics libraries that are coded in C for > > speed. Thus, you get the benefits of a VHLL plus a LLL (low level > > language) when speed is needed. > > Is there any reason why any of these complex scripting languages have > to be interpreted, as opposed to compiled? > > Some quite complex packages are around which have been written in > such languages; Perl seems to be both common and expensive. It would [snip] > > To me, it seems that the obvious solution is to run the script through > a Perl compiler, and produce a binary executable that should execute > at the same order of speed as any other compiled HLL code. Why is this > not done? Is it simply that nobody's bothered to write a Perl > compiler, or is there some infelicity in the design of Perl that makes > it impractical? Can't say about Perl, but attempts at a Python compiler have only been partially successful, because Python is so dynamic. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "I have created a government of whirled peas..." Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 12-May-2002, CNN, Larry King Live -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
