Re: Perl v5.6.1 looking for .pmc files

From: http://dev.perl.org/perl5/list-summaries/p5p-200207-3.pod.html

.pmc files

Nick Ing-Simmons found an old, unused feature that was deeply burried into the perl code : when loading a module via use or require, perl checks whether there's a .pmc file along the .pm file, and newer; if it finds it, it gets loaded in place of the .pm. This was intended to be used by the byteloader, but apparently isn't used at all (unless something was missed.) Anyway it was too late to remove it.

http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2002-07/msg00555.html

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Re: Re: Perl v5.6.1 looking for .pmc files by ruscoekm (Monk) on Oct 22, 2002 at 18:32 UTC
Ha! Many thanks for digging that one out of the archives. Nick's comment that "The required stat()s on a sick NFS system are significant!" summed up my feelings exactly :-) By the sound of the subsequent mail chain, there should be a workaround in v5.8.1. Until then, I guess I will have to look for improvements elsewhere. Cheers, Kevin	[reply]
Re: Re: Perl v5.6.1 looking for .pmc files by DapperDan (Pilgrim) on Oct 23, 2002 at 13:25 UTC
Bravo for finding this! I too wondered what the flap was with these `.pmc` stat calls, because the original question was well-asked.	[reply]
Re^2: Perl v5.6.1 looking for .pmc files by rvosa (Curate) on Mar 13, 2007 at 02:04 UTC
Sooo... instead you could speed things up by compiling the modules to bytecode using Module::Compile (okay, in theory).	[reply]
Re^3: Perl v5.6.1 looking for .pmc files by fglock (Vicar) on Mar 22, 2007 at 20:38 UTC
yes! except that the feature is more used nowadays to preprocess complex code into plain perl5, instead of bytecode. v6, for example, process perl6 source code into plain perl5 "pmcs".	[reply] [d/l]