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. -- stef
