On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 16:27, Deryk Barker wrote:
> Thus spake Kirk Strauser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> > At 2003-08-27T11:41:17Z, Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Perl is compiled into opcodes before execution begins. All Perl is compiled.
>
> Perl is byte-compiled (like java was intended, like python) which
> means that the resulting bytecode must still be interpreted, adding a
> level of overhead to compilation to native code.
>
> python actually can be "frozen" to produce an executable that does not
> require IIRC even the python runtime library to be present.
The run-time must always be there, by definition. Running Python
against a python source file that doesn't have a "main" will cause
it to create a byte-compiled .pyc file. This helps
(a) at run-time, because the file doesn't have to re-parsed
(b) you can ship a much smaller .pyc file
(c) you can hide the source from the end-users, especially "a
little knowledge is a dangerous thing" dorks.
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