Re^3: Pre-compiled Perl? P6?

What happened to perlcc? was a very fun node! thanks for that.

Anyway if i recall P6 was announced with the ability to write out machine-indipendent code (is that called bytecode?) many years ago: are you or other aware if this intention was removed from the smiling butterfly too?

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Re^4: Pre-compiled Perl? by LanX (Saint) on Apr 03, 2017 at 20:56 UTC
There are different terms which are slightly different. Perl5 has so called op-codes. you can use B::Terse or B::Concise to see the opcode ° `c:/tmp $ perl -MO=Terse -e'print "Hallo Discipulus"' -e syntax OK LISTOP (0x26eb410) leave [1] OP (0x26eb3e0) enter COP (0x26eb450) nextstate LISTOP (0x26eb4e0) print OP (0x26eb4b0) pushmark SVOP (0x26eb520) const [1] PV (0x4c87b8) "Hallo Discipulus"` [download] The difference seems that bytecode is kind of an artificial low level machine-code while op-code are more the tokens for high level commands. see http://www.differencebetween.info/difference-between-opcode-and-bytecode AFAIK it's even more complicated for Perl5 because some things are mangled. From what I heard does Perl6 have even more possibilities. There is at least a Java-bytecode implementation (in the making ?) HTH Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :) Je suis Charlie!} °) and B::Deparse does nothing else than trying to back-engineer Op-code to most likely source code.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Pre-compiled Perl? P6? by Laurent_R (Canon) on Apr 04, 2017 at 23:16 UTC
As far as I know, Perl 6 can sort of precompile modules, so the second time you call a large module, it loads much faster. But I haven't really experimented that (or, at least, haven't made any performance measurement).	[reply]